Central
Kentucky
Jewish
Federation

 

Volume IX

October 1 99]

Number 6

 

Community Relations Committee
Launches New Institute

The CKJF Community Relations
Committee, which is Co—chaired by Bill
Leffler and David Kaplan, is sponsoring
what we hope will become an annual
event for us - an Institute on Judaism for
Christian Clergy. It will be held at
Temple Adath Israel on Wednesday
morning, October 16, from 9:30 until
noon. There will be a deli luncheon
following the lecture.

The speaker for this Institute will be
Rabbi Michael Cook, Professor of
Intertestamental and Early Christian
Literature at the Hebrew Union College ~
Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati.

We are hoping for a large turnout for this
event

For many years the rabbis of
Lexington and volunteers from the Jewish
community have spoken to church groups
throughout the Bluegrass, and realized
that there is a great deal of interest in
Judaism and the Jewish roots of
Christianity. This Institute will enable
many of the clergy to hear a rabbi talk
about the New Testament from a
scholarly and a Jewish perspective. We
think this will be a significant addition to
the process of inter-religious
understanding in our community.