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To: Elsewhere who wrote (133317)8/19/2005 7:48:51 AM
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Pope Reaches Out to Jews on Synagogue Trip
By David McHugh
The Associated Press
Friday, August 19, 2005; 6:42 AM
washingtonpost.com

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COLOGNE, Germany -- Pope Benedict XVI on Friday became the second pope to visit a synagogue, stopping to pray and remember Holocaust victims with Cologne's Jewish community.

Benedict stood quietly with his hands clasped during a Hebrew prayer before a memorial to the six million Jews killed by Nazi Germany, and strode into the main hall as the choir sang, "Shalom alechem," or "peace be with you."

A shofar, or ram's horn, sounded as Benedict sat at the front. He then listened intently to the cantor's singing in the blue-domed Roonstrasse Synagogue, home to the oldest Jewish community in Germany.

Rabbi Natanel Teitelbaum said the pope's visit was "a step toward peace between the peoples of the world."

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