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This guy was at the meeting on behalf of the bishops:

Why convert the saved?
Eugene Fisher

The Catholic Church does not support organisations which aim to convert Jews. Nor should it, argues the associate director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Relations at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. For the Church believes that Judaism is salvific for Jews.

http://thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00544

This guy was at the meeting on behalf of the bishops:
Why convert the saved? Eugene Fisher

This guy is incredible. Here's an earlier attack on Mel Gibson by the same guy:

Anti-Defamation League "biblical scholar" Eugene Fisher: Brazenly dishonest or scripturally challenged? You make the call!

"The only role the Bible says the Pharisees have in the passion of Jesus is, in one case they try to warn him that there's a plot against his life."

Remember "Reflections on Covenant," the document from the same USCCB Committee that said that the Old Covenant was salvific for Jews? That would have been Fisher's work too. Fits in perfect with the article you found "Why convert the saved?"

And by the way, this guy has total carte blanche going all the way to the top. Check out this press release:

Dr. Eugene Fisher Named by Pope as Consultor to Holy See's Commission For Religious Relations with the Jews

WASHINGTON (April 11, 2003) -- Dr. Eugene J. Fisher, Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has received from Pope John Paul II his fifth quinquennial appointment as Consultor to the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews.
Dr. Fisher is one of ten such Consultors world-wide and the only American.
In a cover letter to the appointment, Cardinal Walter Kasper, President of the Commission, wrote: "The renewal of your mandate imparts particular joy as it enables the Commission to continue to involve you and to benefit from your valuable collaboration in its aim of promoting and nurturing relations between Catholics and Jews."
On hearing of the appointment, the USCCB General Secretary, Msgr. William Fay, said, "I join with Cardinal Kasper in expressing my delight and gratitude to Dr. Fisher for his many years of productive and faithful service to the Church."
Father Arthur Kennedy, Executive Director of the USCCB Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, said: "Dr. Fisher's work has contributed to deepening bonds between Jews and Catholics not only in the United States, but also in many other countries and contexts as a result of his dedicated activity as Consultor to the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews."
Dr. Fisher, who has served the bishops' conference for 25 years in this capacity, has been the recipient of numerous awards from both Jewish and Catholic organizations.

I see now that this Fisher was already exposed back in 2003 when he began attacking Mel Gibson based on the illegally-obtained shooting script of the movie. Tantumergo had some information, and this nuanced judgment:

"You mean defending the divinely revealed truth of Christian faith from the subversive attacks of pinko, PC, selfloathing maggots of compromisers like Fisher?"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/926501/posts