Five Decades of Tikkun Olam (repair of the world): The San Francisco Catholic and Jewish Communities

Past, Present, and Future

Welcome the Most Reverend George Niederauer, The New Archbishop to San Francisco

Sunday, March 12, 2006
7 pm

Temple Emanu-El
Main Sanctuary
2 Lake Street (at Arguello)
San Francisco

Join us as the Jewish community welcomes the new Archbishop of San Francisco, George H. Niederauer, D.D, Ph.D., most recently the Archbishop of Salt Lake City, Utah.

The program will include an acknowledgement of the 40th Anniversary of Nostra Aetate, which transformed Catholic–Jewish relations, and will feature children’s choirs from Temple Emanu-El and Stuart Hall High School.

Speakers include the new Archbishop and Rabbi Stephen Pearce as well as Msgr. Eugene Boyle, Earl Raab and Rita Semel, Executive Directors Emeriti of the Jewish Community Relations Council, and Catholic Diocese archivist Jeffrey Burns, PhD.

This program is sponsored by Congregation Emanu-El, the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the Jewish Community Relations Council,  the Consulate General of Israel in San Francisco, and the Northern California Board of Rabbis.

For more information, contact Judi Leff at (415) 751-2541 x 115 or jleff@emanuelsf.org