On Friday, May 26, 2017, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the
Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) was received in a private audience by the Holy
Father Pope Francis at the Vatican.
Rabbi
Jacobs was at the Vatican as a leader of Religions for Peace, for their meeting
on Ethics in Action 3: Migrants and Refugees.
The
private one-to-one 20-minute meeting took place at the same desk in the same
library in the Apostolic Palace as the meeting between Pope Francis and US
President Donald Trump just two days earlier.
The
Holy Father and Rabbi Jacobs discussed various themes relating to the promotion
of peace and collaboration in the world through interreligious dialogue,
assisting immigrants and refugees, and learning to love one’s neighbor as
oneself.
Rabbi Jacobs also told the Pope that the Reform Movement
supports the Pope’s efforts to promote a peace agreement between Israel and the
Palestinians based upon the formula of “two states for two peoples”.
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