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Ärende: Papal Visit - More (Continued)
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Hello All.

   Complex backdrop as Pope prepares to visit German shul
   By LISA PALMIERI-BILLIG
   ROME
   (Continued from page 1 of 2)

   Cologne's  Jewish  population totaled 18,000 in 1933. Of these, 11,000
   were  murdered  in the Holocaust and the rest emigrated. In 1945, some
   80 people 30 native survivors and 50 displaced Jews re-established the
   community.  Considered  the oldest Jewish community north of the Alps,
   Cologne  Jewry was mentioned in a church document dating from the year
   321.

   At  noon  on  Friday,  Pope  Benedict  XVI  will  enter  the  Orthodox
   synagogue,  which  was  rebuilt  in  1959  on  the site of a synagogue
   destroyed  on  Kristallnacht, and address a community that has arisen,
   phoenix-like,  from  the  ashes of destruction. He will be welcomed by
   the   synagogue's   young  Israeli  rabbi,  Netanael  Teitelbaum,  and
   community head Abraham Lehrer.

   Benedict  will  have  an  impressive entourage. Most significantly, he
   will  be  accompanied  by  the  Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal
   Angelo  Sodano, as well as by Cardinal Lustiger of Paris (whose Jewish
   parents  were  killed at Auschwitz); Cardinal Walter Kasper, president
   of  the  Vatican's  Commission  for  Religious  Relations  with  Jews;
   Archbishop  Joachim  Meisner,  president  of  the Cologne Diocese; and
   Cardinal  Karl  Lehmann,  president  of the German Bishops Conference,
   among others.

   Government  officials,  leaders  of  the  German  Jewish community and
   international     Jewish     organizations,     interfaith    dialogue
   representatives,  delegates  of  Liberal  and  Reform  Judaism (which,
   unlike  their  Roman  counterparts, are included under the umbrella of
   the  national  federation of Jewish communities), and journalists will
   be among the 500 invitees.

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Best regards,
Marc

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