{"id":10658,"date":"2013-11-11T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=10658"},"modified":"2013-11-11T07:41:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T13:41:37","slug":"pope-recalls-crystal-night-of-our-older-big-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/pope-recalls-crystal-night-of-our-older-big-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope recalls &#8216;Crystal Night&#8217; of &#8216;our older big brothers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROME (JTA) \u2013 Calling Jews \u201cour older big brothers,\u201d Pope Francis marked the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht by renewing what he termed his \u201ccloseness and solidarity with the Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Francis spoke about the anniversary following his Sunday address to the faithful in St. Peter\u2019s Square.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is the 75th anniversary of the so-called \u2018Crystal Night,\u2019 \u201d he said.\u00a0 The violence on the night between Nov. 9-10 1938 against Jews, their synagogues, homes, and businesses, he said, \u201csignaled a sad step toward the tragedy of the Shoah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cWe renew our closeness and solidarity with the Jewish people, our older big brothers. And we pray to God that the memory of the past, the memory of past sins, helps us to be ever vigilant against any form of hate and intolerance<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Pope%20recalls%20%27Crystal%20Night%27%20of%20%27our%20older%20big%20brothers%27\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4240],"tags":[8794,8790,8795,8910,8788,2309,1646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10659,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10658\/revisions\/10659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}