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| Leaders of the World Jewish Congress held their first meeting Monday with the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of some 250 million people in the Greek, Russian and Serbian Orthodox churches, met in New York with the WJC’s president, Edgar Bronfman, its chairman, Israel Singer, and its executive vice president, Elan Steinberg. The meeting “in effect put the kosher stamp for the international dialogue we’re proceeding with the Eastern Orthodox Church, which we hope will parallel the successes we have had with the Vatican,” Steinberg told JTA. Steinberg said Bartholomew, whose seat is in Istanbul, condemned religious fanaticism, terrorism and anti-Semitism |
http://www.jta.org/brknews.asp?id=100413
