A closed circuit television series on Jews and Judaism was inaugurated here today by the New York Archdiocese and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith which co-produced it. The series, consisting of five one-hour programs on “The Image of the Jews in Literature” and seven half-hour programs on “Jews and Their Religion,” will be viewed by nearly 8,000 teachers in New York Catholic schools. According to Archbishop Terence J. Cooke and Dore Schary, ADL national chairman, more than a quarter of a million parochial school children will be affected ultimately by inclusion in their curriculum of the material in the programs and in published resource aids and texts. The series was described as “an outgrowth of increasingly close cooperation between Catholics and Jews since Vatican II Council” and “a ‘first’ in the field of inter-religious relations.”
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