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Article: In sharpest contrast to Hillel Halkin's reflection is a long editorial in New York's Jewish Daily Forward.(While We're At It)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- May 1, 2008
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In sharpest contrast to Hillel Halkin's reflection is a long editorial in New York's Jewish Daily Forward. It is a sustained cry of outrage against Pope Benedict's revision of the Good Friday prayer in the extraordinary Latin form. The editors write: "The prayer no longer speaks of Jewish 'blindness' or 'darkness,' much less 'perfidy.' But it still asks that 'all Israel be saved through Christ our Lord.' It was that missionizing ambition, not the phrasing of it, that troubled Jews through the ages. That was the doctrine that Pope John Paul II promised to annul." It will come as stunning news to all who are even minimally informed about such matters that John Paul promised ...
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