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We've brought together some of the country's
best teachers, clergy, and professionals to
educate, enlighten, and inform you on subjects
of great interest to the Jewish community:
■
Mondays
What Jews Should Know About Christianity
Rev. Jim Lyons,
Director of the Ecumenical Institute
7-8 PM • 2/28, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21 • $40
■
Hate in the '90s: The Legitimization of Intolerance
Richard Lobenthal, Director of the Detroit
Chapter of the Anti-Defamation League
8-9 PM • 2/28, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21 • $40
Introduction to Judaism
Richard LotheRthal
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Rev
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Cantor Sam Berman
7-8 PM • 2/28-5/2 • $50 + Books
Wednesdays
Beginning Yiddish
Rabbi Ahron Davidson
7-8 PM • 3/2-5/4 • $50 + Books
Conversational Hebrew
Narda Oz
7-8 PM • 3/2-5/4 • $50 + Books
Beginning Hebrew
Alan Lowen
7-8 PM • 3/2-5/4 • $50 + Books
Thursdays
■ Eastern Europe: Fascism or Democracy
Rabbi Sherwin Wine
7-8 PM • 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 4/7 • $40
Introduction to Judaism
The Winter '94 term starts soon!
Seating is limited and
classes fill up quickly,
so please call
(810) 737-8700
by February 28
to register.
Rabbi Dannel Schwartz
7-8 PM • 3/3-5/5 • $50 + Books
■ Coping With Family Relationships in Intermarriage
Dr. Nancy Gad-Harf, Ph.D, M.S.W.; Margaret
Weiner, M.S.W.; Marilyn Hertzberg, M.S.W.
7-9 PM • 3/3, 3/10, 3/17, 3/24 • $50 (2-Hour Class)
■ What Happens After I Die?
Rabbi Dannel Schwartz
8 - 9 PM • 3/3-3/24 • $40
Hands-On Judaism
Sally Fitlow
8-9 PM • 3/3-5/5 • $50 + Materials
TEMPLE
SHIR
SHALOM
Jerusalem (JTA) — A huge
interfaith conference held
here last week broke new
ground by bringing many
Church luminaries to
Jerusalem for the first time
and thereby offering de facto
recognition of Israeli
sovereignty over the capital
city.
Top Christian leaders join-
ed rabbis from around the
world to address the common
challenges posed by moder-
nity in the largest interfaith
conference ever held in
Jerusalem.
Despite a boycott by
Israel's Orthodox and
fervently Orthodox estab-
lishment, the International
Jewish/Christian Con-
ference on Modern Social
and Scientific Challenges
was hailed as a big success,
drawing more than 500
delegates from nearly 100
countries.
The presence of so many
Christian leaders comes in
the wake of the recent estab-
lishment of diplomatic ties
between the Vatican and
Israel and a generally
warmer international at-
titude toward Israel as a
result of the Middle East
peace accords.
"There were top ap-
pointees of the Church from
the Vatican and top ap-
pointees of the Protestants
from Geneva," said Rabbi
Joseph Ehrenkranz, ad-
ministration director of the
Center for Christian Jewish
Understanding at Sacred
Heart University in Fair-
field, Conn.
"And they were here on an
equal footing (with the Jews)
at the invitation of the Jew-
ish people," he said.
"Outside of the Pope, what
more (could) you want?"
The conference was spon-
sored by the Bamot Center
for Cultural and Social
Studies in cooperation with
the Tantur Ecumenical In-
stitute.
The notables included
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger,
who is the world's most
powerful cardinal and is the
leading conservative voice in
the Catholic Church, based
in Rome; Cardinal Carlo
Maria Martini, the ar-
chbishop of Milan, who is
often named as a possible
candidate to succeed Pope
John Paul II and is the most
prominent Church liberal;
and the Archbishop of
Canterbury George Carey.
"The academic and schol-
arly positions being staked
out (were) not spectacularly
new or ground-breaking,"
said Rabbi Irving Green-
berg, the New York-based
president of CLAL, the
Center for Jewish Learning
and Leadership, and one of
the keynote speakers.
But the "highly visible,
Jewish-sponsored" inter-
faith dynamic of the con-
ference in Jerusalem was
"remarkable," he said. "The
number of cardinals knocked
my eyes out.
"And theology follows
reality," he said. He pointed
to "an historic transforma-
tion of the Church toward a
covenantal pluralism in its
attitude toward Judaism" as
evidenced by Cardinal Ratz-
inger's speech.
Cardinal Ratzinger re-
ferred to the history of the
relationship between "Israel
and Christendom" as one
"drenched with blood and
tears," one "of mistrust and
hostility," but also one
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