Pope Francis will make his first pontifical visit to Rome's Great Synagogue next year, the Vatican and the city's Jewish community said in statements on Tuesday.
Francis, who had a good relationship with the Jewish community in his native Argentina, will go to the synagogue on the bank of the Tiber River on Jan. 17 for the first time since he was elected pope in 2013.
He will be the third Roman Catholic pontiff to visit the seat of Rome's Jews after his predecessor Benedict and John Paul II.
Part of the reason these mobs have been able to riot illegally is because of the threat of one word: Islamophobia.
The extreme tactics of those creating these encampments and related protests are unacceptable at every level.
You have the opportunity to show your kids, show your family, that when the time came, you stood up for what’s right.
The Columbia administrators have clearly lost control. Their cowardice and inability to act has ceded the campus to the antisemitic mobs, who delight in making Jewish students feel unwelcome and unsafe.
What we are seeing at Yale and other so-called “elite” or Ivy League universities has brought shame to American society.
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