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Atlanta (JTA) — On a recent
Wednesday evening, Reform
rabbinical students Michael
Moskowitz and Josh Bennett
were busy at the Anointed
Word Evangelistic Taber-
nacle Church of God in
Christ here, teaching the
gospel choir the Hebrew
song "Oseh Shalom" or
"Maker of Peace."
Mr. Bennett and Mr.
Moskowitz had come to
Atlanta from the Hebrew
Union College in Cincinnati
to participate in a meeting of
19 rabbinical students and
21 black Protestant and
Pentecostal seminary
students held at the
Interdenominational Theo-
logical Center.
ITC is a campus of six
seminaries, each from a diff-
erent denomination, and
part of the Atlanta Univer-
sity confederation of
historically black institu-
tions of higher education,
which includes Morehouse
and Spelman Colleges.
This meeting, the third in
nine years convened by the
American Jewish Com-
mittee and ITC, was held
November 17-19, and in
cluded Jewish students from
the Conservative
movement's Jewish Theolog-
ical Seminary, the Reform
movement's two campuses,
in Cincinnati and New York,
and the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical College.
One of the ITC students,
Rosalind Gross, is a member
of the Anointed Word
Evangelistic Tabernacle
Church of God in Christ.
During a break from the con-
ference one evening, she
brought Mr. Moskowitz and
Mr. Bennett to hear her
church choir practice, where
they taught the gospel
singers one of liberal
Judaism's best- loved songs.
Friendships like these
were quickly formed bet-
ween the Christian and Jew-
ish students, and cemented
as the religious leaders-in-
training moved past super-
ficial niceties and began ad-
dressing the more difficult
issues percolating just below
the surface of the nascent re-
lationship.
Their informal, frank and
often visceral discussions
over the strictly kosher
meals and in small groups
afterward, revealed that
potentially dangerous misin-
formation about Jews is
widely accepted in the
African-American commun-
ity.
The African-American
students also made clear
that they expect the Jewish
community to be more active
on behalf of economic and
social justice issues.
Most of the ITC students
came to the conference
without having known any
Jews, and were completel
unaware of Jewish fears and
sensitivities.
Jews, in their view, were
simply the most successful
segment within the white
establishment, and in con-
trol of America's economi
and political systems — the
very systems from which
they feel shut out.
Then they heard from the
rabbinical students about
how vulnerable Jews feel in
America, and how tenuous
Jews feel their about their
acceptance by the largely
Christian establishment in
this country.
The Jewish studentE-
learned, for the first time,
ITC is a
campus of six
seminaries,
each from a
different
denomination.
how seriously the ITC'
students take black scholar-
ship that concludes that
Jesus, his contemporaries
and their biblical ancestors",
were black.
The -rabbinical students
also discovered how upset
their counterparts were that
Jewish seminaries don't
offer courses about black ex-
perience and culture.
Jews and black Christians
learned that they share
some of the same concerns
for their communities over
assimilation and over the
pursuit of "the American
dream," which tends to sup= <
plant their communities' re-
ligious and cultural ideals. c:
The students pledged to
continue the dialogue they
had gotten a chance to begin,
and promised to put it to
constructive use. A joint ap-,_
plication to a foundation for
funding to meet again :;,s
planned, as is a journal of
scholarship on issues of
common concern.