Rabbi David Rosen on Building Peace on the Ruins of WWII

(07 Sept 09 - RV) “Working for peace is not a utopia” - stressed Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio today as he opened the first full day of the international conference of "Men and Religion in Dialogue for Peace", in Krakow, Poland 22 seminars and nearly 300 speakers focused on progress and set- backs in the quest for global peace 70 years since the beginning of World War II. Rabbi David Rosen is the Director of the American Jewish Committee's Department for Inter-religious Affairs. He is in Krakow attending the three day conference and told Vatican Radio's Stefano Lezczynski that memory, even the painful memory of the Holocaust must inspire humanity to peace: