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New York (JTA) — Jewish
interreligious affairs experts
have welcomed Pope John
Paul II's denouncement of
the current resurgence of
anti-Semitism in Europe.
During his regular weekly
audience at the Vatican on
Wednesday, the pope said he
condemned "profanations
which offend the memory of
the victims of the Shoah,"
the Hebrew word for the
Holocaust.
"The church deplores the
hate, the persecutions and
all forms of anti-Semitism
which target the Jews of any
era and which are carried
out by anybody," the pope
said.
His statement marked the
27th anniversary of "Nostra
Aetate," the Vatican docu-
ment that invalidated the
long-held Catholic belief in
collective Jewish respon-
sibility for the death of
Jesus. "Nostra Aetate,"
published in 1965, fun-
damentally recast the
Catholic view of Jews and
Judaism.
John Paul II referred
directly to the document in
his address, saying, "I recall
this anniversary having in
mind very vividly the bit-
terness over the news of at-
tacks and profanations
which, for some time, offend
the memory of the victims of
the Shoah in those same
places which were witness to
the sufferings of millions of
people.
"The church deplores the
hatred, persecutions and
displays of anti-Semitism
directed against the Jews at
any time and from any
source," he said, adding:
"Every form of racism is a
sin against God and against
man."
According to Rabbi Mark
Winer, co-chair of the Syn-
agogue Council of America's
interfaith affairs committee,
"the pope himself feels very
deeply on a personal level
the historic suffering of the
Jewish people.
"On his own religious faith
he has committed himself to
try to correct the sins of the
Catholic Church's history in
this regard," said Rabbi
Winer.
The Synagogue Council is
a constituent of the Interna-
tional Jewish Committee on
Interreligious Consulta-
tions, or IJCIC, the Jewish
community's official dia-
logue partner with the Vat-
ican.
Slovakia
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Prague (JTA) — Vladimir
Meciar, the prime minister
of the soon-to-be-
independent republic of
Slovakia, joined Israel's am-
bassador to Czechoslovakia,
Yoel Sher, last week in the
unveiling of a memorial to
the 6,000 Jews who were
deported from the Slovak
city of Nitra 50 years ago.
The ceremony at the Nitra
synagogue was the last in a
series of observances of the
memory of Slovakia's Jewry,
which was deported to Nazi
extermination camps in
1942 by the puppet Slovak
regime of President Josef
Tiso.
The unveiling was attend-
ed by representatives of the
Slovak Jewish community.
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