Chief Rabbi Asks Dalai Lama to Help Set up Religious
UN in Jerusalem
Feb 19, '06 / 21 Shevat 5766
(Arutz Sheva IsraelNN.com)
Israel's Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yonah Metzger, meeting with the Dalai Lama, a Buddhist
monk who is the leader of Tibet, suggested that representatives of the
world's religions establish a United Nations in Jerusalem, representing religions instead of
nations, like the UN currently based in New York.
"Instead
of planning for nuclear war and buying tanks and fighter jets, it will invest in peace," Metzger said. He later reported that
the Tibetan leader was very excited about the idea and offered to help advance it.
Also at the meeting was Chief Sephardic
Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Rabbi David Rosen of the American Jewish Committee (who is on good terms with the Roman Catholic Church),
Rabbi Menachem Froman of Tekoa, kadis (Ethiopian rabbis) and various Islamic sheikhs.