“Deep concern and sorrow” over “evidences surfacing again of anti-Semitic sentiments and corresponding vandalism” was expressed here in a statement by Timothy Cardinal Manning, Archbishop of Los Angeles, in saluting Wilshire Boulevard Temple on its 120th anniversary a week ago. At the some time, he appealed for strengthened “harmony and cooperation between our two faiths.”
The prelate cited examples “of our cooperative relationship within the church and the Jewish community in Los Angeles. Our students have attended seder services. Our Religious Education Congress had educational presentations. Our seminaries have exchange programs. Already four statements have been issued from on-going dialogues.”
Manning expressed “our fond hope and ordent prayer that we of America’s second largest Jewish Catholic community, together with our neighbors in America’s second largest Jewish community may serve as a model of harmony and cooperation between our two faiths.”
Manning also saluted Rabbi Edgar Magnin, the spiritual leader of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, for being “the inspiration and driving force for so many good causes in Los Angeles for three gnerations,” and his longtime associate, Rabbi Alfred Wolf, for building “new bridges not only between the Catholic and Jewish communities but between the many religious and ethinic groups of our Southland.”
The statement, which was delivered personally by the Cardinal to Magnin and Wolf, was read to more than 1,000 students of Los Angeles Catholic high schools who gathered at the Temple for a model seder service April I. The statement was also published in “The Tidings,” the Archdiocesan newspaper, April 2.
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