>NY Jews in Rome to pay tribute
By CLEMENTE LISI
Last Updated: 3:47 AM, February 18, 2012
Posted: 1:05 AM, February 18, 2012
ROME — Catholics aren’t the only ones at the Vatican to see Archbishop Timothy Dolan become a cardinal.
A small group of Jews traveled to Rome this week — part of a larger pilgrimage tour that included 800 New Yorkers — in a sign of love toward the city’s newest cardinal.
“I’m here to show my respect and admiration for Cardinal Dolan,” said Rabbi Noam Marans, who heads the American Jewish Committee’s interreligious-relations group. “It’s really a delight to be here for such a momentous occasion.”
Marans, of Ridgewood, NJ, said he and a handful of Jews made the trip across the Atlantic because Dolan has been so welcoming to the Jewish community in New York since being named archbishop in 2009.
