A delegation from B’nai B’rith International met Monday with Pope Benedict XVI in Rome. The B’nai B’rith group, led by President Moishe Smith and Executive Vice President Daniel Mariaschin, urged the pontiff to offer “an urgent and unwavering moral response” to extremists such as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who hosted a Holocaust denial conference in Tehran last week.
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