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...major reason for the lukewarm quality of Jewish-Christian relations was last spring's Arab-Israeli war. Jewish leaders have charged that the majority of Christian churchmen either remained silent, or failed to protest strongly when Arab nations threatened to annihilate Israel. The Synagogue Council of America, chief coordinating body of U.S. Judaism, scored "the tolerance of some Western opinion toward these Arab threats of genocide." Nonetheless, at last week's meetings of the United Synagogue in Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., and the U.A.H.C. in Montreal, the consensus was that current tension should be an in centive to dialogue...
...invite Protestant or Jewish speakers, and the cardinal himself recently addressed the Masons' Brotherhood Lodge (subject: ecumenism). In St. Louis, some Holy Name Societies sponsor monthly meetings of Catholics and Protestants to discuss theology, with the groups alternating in choosing the topics. Catholic parent-teacher groups in San Francisco have switched discussions from such themes as "Patron Saint of the Month" to "Communication with Non-Catholic Brothers." And the National Councils of Catholic Men and Women are distributing 20,000 "Grass Roots Ecumenism Kits," which contain six booklets on such topics as Jewish-Christian dialogues...
Ending Hostility. Strongest advocates of Jewish-Christian cooperation are Jewish service agencies in the U.S., such as B'nai B'rith and the American Jewish Committee, which discreetly but effectively lobbied in Rome for passage of Vatican II's condemnation of antiSemitism. Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the A.J.C., for example, believes that neither side is ready yet to talk theology, but sees no reason for Jews to fear that the dialogue with Christianity will involve a disguised attempt at conversion. On the contrary, he argues, it represents a "chance to change a relationship which has lasted...
...Martyr. It was the collection for the Mother Church in Jerusalem that profoundly changed his future. In his letter to the Romans, he said he wanted nothing more than to come to Rome, but the need to defend his ministry to the Gentiles against Jewish-Christian opposition in Jerusalem made it necessary for him to carry the latest collection there himself. When he was visiting the Temple in Jerusalem, some Jews from Ephesus recognized Paul, whom they considered Judaism's arch-subversive, and at once raised an outcry that Paul had desecrated the holy place. A frenzied mob surged...
...institute's director is an Austrian-born Jew who became a Roman Catholic priest: the Rev. John M. Oesterreicher, 51. Father Oesterreicher worked to further Jewish-Christian understanding in Europe before he was forced to flee the Nazis during World War II. In 1953 he founded the institute with the encouragement of some of the top Catholic scholars in the U.S. and abroad. One result: The Bridge, a Yearbook of Judaeo-Christian Studies (Pantheon; $3.95), the first in a series that will review the relationship between Christians and Jews in history, philosophy, theology, the arts...