Pope John Paul II at Judaism’s holiest site

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By Rabbi Eric J. Greenberg

He stood alone in the shadow of the western retaining wall of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Then, God’s representative on Earth to nearly a billion Catholics slipped a sheet of paper into a crack in the holiest site in Judaism. And prayed.

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