An Israeli chief rabbi urged the world to shun Iran’s president. Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger said Wednesday at an interfaith conference in the Vatican that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s calls for Israel to be “wiped off the map” recalled the runup to the Holocaust.
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