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Yehiel E. Poupko
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Rabbi Yehiel E. Poupko is Rabbinic Scholar at the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, where he is responsible for the Jewish community's interfaith relations. He is the author of Chana: A Life in Prayer and a book of poetry, What Is Lost.
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Three popes have made memorial pilgrimages to Auschwitz. Three popes have advanced the understanding of how to honor the memories of Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
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Commentary: I am not so much concerned with this or that episodic statement made by Pope Francis. Our concerns must of ethical necessity be expressed in the overall context of the friendship of this pope and of the church.