[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 6 (Tuesday, February 1, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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       IN HONOR OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS

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                         HON. GARY L. ACKERMAN

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 1, 1994

  Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join with my constituents 
in recognizing and honoring the Greater New York Region of the National 
Conference of Christians and Jews [NCCJ] for its outstanding efforts in 
bringing together diverse groups of people from the New York 
metropolitan area in a sense of true cooperation and brotherhood.
  Founded in 1927, the NCCJ has been a leading force in the New York 
area in fostering intergroup relations and understandings. Under the 
far-reaching and effective leadership of Margaret Gillmore, executive 
director of the New York region and Murray Harris, regional chairman, 
the NCCJ continues to provide leadership in cultural and ethnic 
diversity to thousands of the New York areas's high school students. In 
addition, the organization helps develop a true feeling of intergroup 
group understanding and appreciation of individual and group feelings 
through its elementary school-oriented program, ``How To Get Along With 
Others.''
  The NCCJ has long been active on the college and adult level by 
focusing on racial and cultural diversity under the program entitled, 
``Sharing Our Similarities, Celebrating Our Differences.'' The 
organization has during its long and successful history, focused its 
efforts on interreligious dialogue bringing Christians, Jews, and 
Muslims together to share issues of mutual concern, both theological 
and secular, and to work together on community problems. Such emphasis 
as community understanding and harmony can be best viewed in the many 
intergroup programs NCCJ conducts among police officers as well as 
neighborhood organizations.
  Mr. Speaker, as the Greater New York Region of the National 
Conference of Christians and Jews celebrates its 66th year of working 
for human understanding and betterment, I ask my colleagues to join 
with me in honoring the officers and members of the NCCJ for all they 
have achieved and extend our best wishes to them in all their future 
undertakings.

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