At the time, I thought it was an ironic bit of unwitting nastiness...then I forgot about it...then I found this piece I'd misplaced by RenReb over at DovBear ... a piece about a meeting in a New York synagogue between a rabbi and the Pope..."The Rabbi and the Pope exchanged gifts last Friday, during the Pope's absurdly meaningless and inappropriate visit to the Park East Synagogue. The Rabbi who, no doubt wishes desperately to be loved, gave the king of the Catholics a silver seder plate and a box of matzohs (and we know what Catholics do with crackers.) In return, the Rabbi received from the Pope a reproduction of a Jewish manuscript kept in the Vatican Museum.
"You read that correctly.
"The Pope's gift to the Rabbi was a COPY of a document his predecessor STOLE which is kept locked away in a museum where only a select group of Jews and Jewish scholars may examine it. Talk about nasty. Its like if the school bully were to take your lunch and give you the bag, and maybe some wrappers, as a gesture of reconciliation."
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I was told that the rabbi gave the Pope a folded, very old piece of paper, reported to be from ancient Jerusalem or somewhere nearby. The Pope opened it and told the Rabbi he would look into the matter. Later the Rabbi told my friend that the paper was a copy of the original invoice for the last supper and it had never been paid. All interest and costs of collection had been waived though
Bob Poris
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