The Timesreports that a Jewish medical machinery salesman from Long Island has emerged as "the Vatican's most outspoken Jewish ally in the debate over" Pope Pius XII's actions during the Holocaust.
Pius is being falsely maligned by his critics as a pious fraud and moral coward who disgraced a great world religion, then why doesn't the Vatican fix the error by simply opening their archives?
Israel is not one of America's 50 states. It's a sovereign nation. Who does President Obama think the Israeli Prime Minister is? His poodle? This is scandalous behavior, and over a non-incident.
The advent of Passover and Easter beckons a deeper discussion about one of the principle differences between Judaism and Christianity. In essence, it is the difference between a values system based on struggle and a values system based on perfection.