Priest, Rabbi Are Honored in Chicago

Rabbi Alfred Wolf, director of the Skirball Institute on American Values of the American Jewish Committee, and Msgr. Royale M. Vadakin, director of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, are being honored this week in Chicago.

They will receive the North American Interfaith Leadership Award at the 12th National Workshop on Christian-Jewish Relations that started Sunday and continues through today at the Chicago Hyatt Regency. They have been working together since 1970, when they initiated priest-rabbi dialogue in Los Angeles.