What happened this past week is fairly remarkable: A pope addressed a letter to Jews, and very few reacted. It’s almost a “tree falling in the forest exercise” – if a pope issues a document and almost no one responds, did it really appear at all?
There’s a fair bit of the Dowager Countess inside Pope Francis, who also seems to dislike the idea that someone has him figured out. Just when you expect him to zig, he’ll zag, seeming to take an almost perverse delight in confounding expectations.
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Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni complained of a “regressive theology and substantial misunderstanding of the situation” since Hamas’s Oct. 7 sneak attack, asserting that “there have been many steps backward in the dialogue.”
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