{"id":681,"date":"2007-08-08T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T15:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:20:36","slug":"cardinal-lustiger-would-say-kaddish-for-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Lustiger Would Say Kaddish For His Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/890521.html\">From Haaretz.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> One day Rabbi Rene-Samuel Sirat was invited to attend a lecture on the Holocaust, held in the amphitheater of the Sorbonne University in Paris. The speaker, a member of the Academie Francaise, moved the audience when he spoke of a Jewish girl who missed out on a golden opportunity to escape a concentration camp to remain near her parents. Eventually, she was sent to her death along with them. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Next to me sat Cardinal Lustiger,&quot; the former chief rabbi of France recalled. &quot;I glanced at his face and saw tears running down his cheeks. At that moment I knew he was remembering his mother, who suffered a similar fate at the Auschwitz death camp.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>Lustiger passed away Monday aged 80. Born Aaron Lustiger, he converted to Catholicism when his Jewish German parents sent him to live with a French Catholic family during the Holocaust. He was ultimately appointed to the Church&#8217;s most senior positions, and served as archbishop of Paris from 1981 until 2005.<\/p>\n<p>On more than one occasion, Sirat met the cardinal entering Paris&#8217; main synagogue. &quot;He would come to say kaddish for his mother,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Joe writes: &quot;Contrast and compare to what would occur at YICC or Beth Jacob.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Haaretz.com: One day Rabbi Rene-Samuel Sirat was invited to attend a lecture on the Holocaust, held in the amphitheater of the Sorbonne University in Paris. The speaker, a member of the Academie Francaise, moved the audience when he spoke &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=681\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-judaism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}