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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Mon Apr 20, 2015, 11:31 AM Apr 2015

Elio Toaff, rabbi who hosted first pope visit to synagogue, dies at 99

Reuters

ROME (Reuters) Elio Toaff, the chief rabbi of Rome for half a century and a pivotal player in Christian-Jewish reconciliation, has died at the age of 99.

Toaff, who a spokesman said died on Sunday (April 19), was Rome’s chief rabbi in 1986 when then-Pope John Paul II made the first visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to a synagogue in nearly 2,000 years.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/04/20/elio-toaff-rabbi-hosted-first-pope-visit-synagogue-dies-99/

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