USCC News Release: 14th National Workshop on Christian-Jewish Relations Set for Tulsa (1994)

USCC News Release: 14th National Workshop on Christian-Jewish Relations Set for Tulsa by William Ryan, August 12, 1994

WASHINGTON--"Dialogue with the Other: Healing and Hope" will be the theme of the 14th National Workshop on Christian-Jewish Relations (NWCJR). Some 800 persons are expected to attend the workshop which will be held at the Adam's Mark Hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma, November 6-9.

Among participants will be Bishop Edward J. Slattery of Tulsa and Father Remi Hoeckman, O.P., Secretary of the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, who will address the concluding plenary session. Responding to Father Hoeckman will be Rabbi Jack Bemporad of the newly established Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut.

For over two decades churches and synagogues throughout the country have joined forces to hold the workshop, the oldest and most prestigious interfaith event in North America. Founded in 1973 in Dayton, Ohio, as a national Catholic-Jewish dialogue sponsored by the Bishops' Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), and now widely co-sponsored across the spectrum of the Christian and Jewish communities, the NWCJR has become over the years a major ecumenical and interreligious event.

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