US Jewish Leader Calls on Synod to Condemn Hamas 'Atrocities’

An official of the oldest Jewish advocacy organization in the United States has called upon the ongoing Synod of Bishops on synodality in the Vatican to issue an explicit condemnation of terrorist attacks by Hamas on Israel, suggesting it’s a needed gesture of “moral clarity.” “To this point, the synod gathered in the Vatican has not succeeded in explicitly condemning the inhuman atrocities of Hamas, and this is a missed opportunity for moral clarity,” said Rabbi Noam Marans in an Oct. 13 interview with the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero.