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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/nyregion/29profile.html
Sister Rose Helped Change a Church's View of Jews
(New York Times) Chris Hedges - Senior Housing at the MetroWest Jewish Center is not usually high on the list of residences for retired Roman Catholic nuns. But after a lifetime of battling anti-Semitism within the church, it seems fitting that this is where Sister Mary Rose Thering, a Dominican nun, has ended up. Sister Rose, 83, recounts what has been a lifelong mission to change her church's teachings and attitudes about Jews. Sister Rose taught in the department of Jewish-Christian studies at Seton Hall and helped pass a bill that makes Holocaust education mandatory in every school in New Jersey. By her own count she has made 54 trips to Israel.