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Pictured with him are from left: Rabbi A. James Rudin, Rev. James Lyons and Maurice Binkow, president of the Detroit Chapter of the AJCommittee. Pointing out that Jews and Christians have a spiritual bond that is "unbreakable," Dr. Eugene Fisher, executive director of the Secretariat -for Catholic-Jewish Relations, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, called on Jews and Christians to make this "unique relationship grow for our grandchildren and our future." Speaking to more than 250 per- sons Monday at St. Aidan's Church in Livonia at a conference commemorating the 20th an- niversary of the Second Vatican Council, Dr. Fisher called on Jews and Christians to "build on the bonds of this day" when the reli- gious groups came together to hold a dialogue on mutual con- cerns. The conference, one of several to be held throughout the year in various cities across the U.S., is part of a nationwide program of the American Jewish Committee to commemorate the historic changes brought about by Vati- can Council II. According to the American Jewish Committee, Vatican Council II, which was convened by the late Pope John XXIII, is con- sidered a turning point in Catholic-Jewish relations. A document issued by the council, the Nostra Aetate (In Our Time), repudiated the notion of collective Jewish guilt for the crucifixion, stressed the spiritual bond be- tween Catholics and Jews and called for mutual understanding and respect between the two faiths. Dr. Fisher said the Council opened up the pathway for changes in religious textbooks, which had previously painted negative picture of Jews. In addi- tion, he said, it gave the impetus for a "renewal of thinking," re- sulting in the formation of corn- missions 'to establish relations with the Jews and in new guidelines for Catholic-Jewish re- lations. Part of the evening's program was dedicated to workshops wherein those attending could discuss mutual concerns. In a workshop entitled, "Issues That Divide," Rabbi A. James Rudin, . the evening's guest speaker, and national director of the American Jewish Commit- tee's interreligious affairs de- partment, and. Rev. James Lyons, executive director of the Ecumen- ical Institute for Jewish- Christian Studies, responded to questions on proselytizing and conversion, the Middle East and Israel, public policy, including church-state separation and the role of religion in the U.S. Rev. Lyons remarked that Jews and Christians have had relation- ships for 2,000 years "but they've been rotten. They've been monologue. We found ourselves talking at each other and by each other." He called for continuing dialogue between the two groups, adding that the problem of trying to hold a dialogue in - the past is that "one instructed the other," rather than learning from each other. "We've been teachers rather than students." He added that only by "rocking the boat" can any progress be made in strengthening Catholic- Jewish ties. He lauded the pro- gress made so far. "We are now beginning to listen to each other •and to share." In his dinner address, Rabbi Rudin traced Catholic-Jewish re- lations prior to Vatican Council II and up to the present. "Catholics saw Jews as a spiritually and sometimes physi- cally surplus people. And Jews, always a minority in Catholic lands, saw Catholics as people who were their potential or actual murderer, physically and spiritu- ally, a Church that professed love, but a people who practiced ven- omous hatred and abuse." Rudin said that the establish- ment of the state of Israel had led to a "new and uncharted relation- ship" between Catholics and Jews, particularly as both groups look-upon Jerusalem as a holy city. And in 1959 Pope John XXIII proposed an ecumenical council. Six years later the Vatican Coun- cil II issued its now famous docu- ments. He called on his- audience to