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4Different voicesto (Iole women played in the HolocaustA communitywide interfaith Holocaust observance will be held at 7:30 p m. Wednesday, April 29. at Father Kelley Hall, St. Therese’s Catholic Church, 4th Street and 25th Avenue.Sister Carol Rittner, RSM, will bethe speaker for this program, titled “Different Voices - Women and the Holocaust.”Sister Rittner is the president of Mercyworks, an international consulting and educational network of the Sisters of Mercy, USA. Previously, she was the director of the Elie Wie-sel Foundation for Humanity, New York, NY, from 1986 to 1990. For nearly 20 years, her interdisciplinary teaching and research have focused on Christian-Jewish relations and on the Holocaust. In addition, she has been involved in the human lights issue in the United States andabroad.In 1984, with the support of Professor Elie Wiesel and under the sponsorship of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, Washington, D C., Sister Rittner organized an international conference on the role of non Jews who rescued and protected Jews during the Holocaust. In addition to the conference. Sister Rittner and Sondra Myers initiated the production of a national public radio series, “Stories for the Days of Remembrance,” and a film, “The Courage to Care,” nominated for a1986 Academy Award in the short documentary category. Sister Rittner subsequently wrote a “Viewer’s Guide” for the film and co edited a book with the same title as the film, “The Courage to Care: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust”As the director of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, Sister Rittner organized several international seminars and conferences in the United States, Europe and Israel for “The Anatomy of Hate” project. She directed the foundation’s na tional Elie Wiesel prize in ethics essay contest for undergraduate senior students. In March 1991, Sister Rittner was awarded a “Coolidge Research Fellowship by the Associationfor Religion and the Intellectual Life.” She participated in the Coolidge Collodquium at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass., from June 6 to July 2, 1991,Sister Rittner, active in interreligious dialogue, frequently leads groups of Christians and Jews to missions to Israel in an effort to promote understanding between these two religious communities.In 1989, she was appointed the International Chairman of the “Renewal and Program” Committee for the Mercy International Project, Dublin, Ireland.A 7 a.m. sunrise service will be held m the nave of the church.Both this service and the 10:30 a.m. service., on the Festival of theResurrection of our Ixird. will cele-- from Page B5Sunday school convenes at 9:25 a.m. During the 10:35 a.m., worship service, the choir will perform the cantata, “He Lives!” Services will(‘onelurip at 7 nm with a mosswfpv ft t •. t * •%•••«•• •A*.* *' •lt;•/ •!• • • » * • . .* ft * « « ft. ' « * #4 * a » ' » * • *iV, .V%W-VV*V. ..vm ::» i ■V» « « ft ft * » •ft'ft * • « ft • » ft • ♦ •r % «V.\ .V.'.V/.'.'iV.'.’.y.y.VX .iAVAV,y,v.*.v.v,. ;w.v.v.v.v.■ v.w . /.w •.vy. •vX-::C. : x-x-:/Sislfi- lt;]*irol KitlnerEaster -New Life Assembly of God, BellwoodThe drama “Third Day’s Morning” will be presented at 6 p.m. This is
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