Rabbi Marvin Hier is the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance.
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The presence of a strong Israel gives credence to the Torah’s message that God is not finished with the people of the Covenant.
The election or the demise of a pope is always an event of enormous public interest that resonates well beyond the Catholic world. This was certainly the case when the newswires flashed their bulletin that Pope Benedict XVI had taken the unprecedented step of resigning because of age and ill health, becoming the first pontiff in more than six centuries to do so.


