Word: rabbis
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...possible canonization of POPE PIUS XII, which the Vatican has been investigating for over 25 years, is drawing fire from a Jewish leader. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, says Pius XII (who reigned from 1939 to '58) was publicly silent during the Holocaust. Hier also says a letter he obtained from a Vatican official indicates that the nomination is moving forward. Father John Pawlikowski of the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago says outrage is premature: "The process is a long one, and any major decisions could be years away." Look for the issue to spark discussions...
...When Rabbi Marvin Hier, the Wiesenthal Center's founder, began planning the Beit Hashoah in the early 1980s, he envisioned a rather conventional Holocaust museum. But he soon realized that it should be more. "We're talking about the eradication of hatred," he explains. "We have no guarantee that future Holocaust victims will be Jews." Karl Katz, a museum designer who helped plan the Beit Hashoah, recalls intense arguments about the plans: "You ask yourself what happens between the time a human being is born and the time he incinerates someone. How do you stop that attitude? We tried lots...
Acting Hillel Director Rabbi Saliv A. Einestone said she thought the panel "realistically laid out the challenges both groups face" and that the speeches by Ogletree, Gates and Jackson "gave backing to what we've been saying all along...
Paul Parks, who is Black, participated in the liberation of Dachau as a soldier and is now chair of the Boston School Committee, and Rabbi Sally Finestone, acting director of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel were also at the press conference...
...Rudenstine, Dean Epps, and the Afro-Am Department--are billing the event as "A Special Moment" in Black-Jewish relations on campus. Jesse Jackson will introduce the film. Following the screening will be a panel discussion that includes Law School assistant professor Charles J. Ogletree, professor Henry Louis Gates, Rabbi Sally Finestone, student representatives of Hillel and the Black Students' Association, a Black veteran and a Holocaust survivor...