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Both Garber and Hanson have long been involved in writing books and essays on Judaism, Jewish history, and Jewish-Christian relations over the centuries. Teaching the Shoah: Mandate and Momentum. [Extracted from the article]

This enabled the movement to spread word around America and into its rural towns and villages of the dire situation of Jews and Christians in the Soviet Union. Gillen and others of the task force even traveled to Russia to attempt to deal directly with its authorities on behalf of Soviet Jews and Christians. On December 6, 1987, one day before a summit meeting of President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, some 250,000 people marched along Constitution Avenue in solidarity especially with the Jews of the Soviet Union but also with its persecuted Christians. [Extracted from the article]

This essay weaves together the personal experiences of the author's life in Catholic-Jewish dialogue with a brief survey of relations on all levels between Jews and Christians. Acknowledging the efforts of Protestants as well as Catholics, it notes that the Jewish-Christian dialogue has been a major ecumenical effort in our time. Noting some of the problems and conflicts that have arisen in Catholic-Jewish relations, especially on the level of relations between the Holy See and the Jewish People, the author notes efforts made by both communities to resolve the difficulties and to establish teaching about each other that can be passed on to future generations, so that never again can the evil ofAn-tisemitism hold sway among Christians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the core of the responses of many scholars to "Dominus Iesus" (DI) is an a priori assumption that the document addresses itself to the teaching of the Catholic Church on Jews and Judaism, as well as the Church's ecumenical and interreligious relations. The fact, however, is that DI has nothing whatever to say of doctrinal or theological relevance to the discussion of how the Catholic Church should understand God's relationship with the Jewish People or, therefore, the Church's relationship with the Jewish People. Now the key question on which everything else depends with regard to Judaism is where the authors of DI would place Judaism.