That will be between the Vatican and the Israeli government.
"Paul Spiegel" was leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) and the main spokesman of the German Judaism/Jews. He was widely praised for his leadership of the German Jewish community, which had grown from the remnants left by the Nazis into the third largest Jewish community in western Europe.
More Paul Spiegel on Wikipedia.This will send a very strong signal.
Will we respect each other more now? Will we love each other? Words alone are not enough. But we were waiting for a gesture, and this was an important gesture.
This was an event that not only has exceptional meaning for Germany, not only for the Catholic Church, but also for the Jewish community in Germany and in the world. It is a historic day, an event that will be thankfully remembered by future generations.
Certainly all those who voted Sunday for the NPD were not right radicals or anti-Semites, ... But it was also not only Nazis who helped bring the (Nazi party) to power in 1933.
If someone told me 45 years ago, 'You are going to be in Cologne, and the pope will visit you in a synagogue,' I wouldn't have believed it. We have come a long way in mutual support and in mutual understanding and, as the pope said, in mutual love.
It sounds like we'd be building another building.
We won't let this rabble take away our freedom. Jews and non-Jews have to unite to stop neo-Nazi terrorists forcing us off the streets again.
We are horrified by this attack on innocent people.
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