When the rabbi told the roomful of teenage Catholic boys that he'd never eaten a McDonald's cheeseburger because his religion forbids it, they stared at him in awe.
Two of the boys raised their hands when Rabbi Alvin Berkun asked how many of them thought Jews and Catholics had been friendly toward each other in the past 2,000 years.
"You guys are wrong," he told them.
The whole idea behind Rabbi Berkun's recent lecture at Central Catholic High School was to help ease the lingering effects of historical tensions between Catholics and Jews and to recognize the special duty the Catholic Church has to teach its young about the awful legacy of Jews being persecuted by Catholics.
Central Catholic students are being exposed to the complicated story of Judeo-Christian relations through a program called the Catholic-Jewish Education Enhancement Program, C-JEEP. Now in its fifth year locally, it is part of a nationwide effort by the two faiths to redefine their relationship to each other in positive terms.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
1 comment:
So let me get this straight, they are blaming these children for the ills of history??
I would hate to meet one of these c-jeep people since I am lutheran, they just might kill me for that crime.
Do they also cover the persicution that the early Christians recived from the Jews around 40 AD, what was St. Paul doing when he was converted.
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