US Rabbi calls UN chief a "mensch"

One of the leading U.S. rabbis on Saturday paid tribute to U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon by calling him a "mensch" -- the Yiddish word for a person of great integrity -- at a Holocaust remembrance service, a day after the U.N. slammed Israeli’s settlement building in the West Ban.

The U.N. secretary general donned a kippah skullcap to honor Jewish Holocaust dead and survivor and other top UN diplomats went to the Park East synagogue in New York, where Rabbi Arthur Schneier has in the past welcomed Pope Benedict XVI and other leading religious dignitaries.