Pope reaches out to chief rabbi in Rome Pope Francis sent a personal message to Rome’s chief rabbi, Riccardo Di Segni, underscoring his desire to foster Catholic-Jewish relations.
1,600 participate in Facebook contest for Obama speech More than 1,600 Israelis submitted slogans to a U.S. Embassy contest for tickets to President Obama’s speech in Jerusalem.
German university fires professor for denying Holocaust The University of Aachen in Germany fired historian Vladimir Iliescu for claiming the Holocaust never happened in Romania.