Come to our Interfaith Seder

at Temple Beth El

7400 Telegraph Rd, Bloomfield Hills

Thursday, March 29, 2012

6:00 - 7:30 PM

(with registration beginning at 5:30 PM)

Rabbinic Associate Keren Alpert will lead the seder and explain the Haggadah (the ritual Jewish Passover text) to mark the Jewish Passover holiday which begins on the evening of April 7th. The service will include a light supper that will highlight the traditional Passover foods, the ritual recitations, songs, and portions of the service.

Registration is required.  Cost is $20 per person.

Send name(s), contact number(s) and email address(es), along with your check made out to WISDOM to:  WISDOM, P.O. Box 7091, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302

Registration must be received by Wednesday, March 21st.

For more information contact:

Fran Hildebrandt, 248-318-8301 or

Paula Drewek, 586-419-6811

Sponsors:  WISDOM, Temple Beth El, and the Isadore and Frances Malin Interfaith Activities Fund of Temple Beth El

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THE CUSHING DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES

UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY

PRESENTS

JANE D. SCHABERG LECTURE IN SCRIPTURE STUDIES

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine

“Jesus and Judaism:

The Connection Still Matters”

March 29, 2012 at 7:30 PM

University of Detroit Mercy

Fountain Lounge

4001 W. McNichols Rd., Detroit

 (intersection of Livernois and W. McNichols)

     Reception Following

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THE INTERFAITH LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF

METROPOLITAN DETROIT PRESENTS:

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine  

“Understanding Jesus means Understanding Judaism:

Tips for Preaching and Teaching”

March 30, 2012 from 10:00 - 11:30 AM

St. John’s Episcopal Church

26998 Woodward, Royal Oak, MI 48067

(SE Corner of 11 Mile and Woodward)

Please RSVP by contacting Gail Katz

gailkatz@comcast.net or 248-978-6664

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and College of Arts and Science in Nashville, TN; she is also Affiliated Professor, Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge UK. Holding the B.A. from Smith College, and the M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, she has honorary doctorates from the University of Richmond, the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, the University of South Carolina-Upstate, Drury University, and Christian Theological Seminary.

Her books include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (HarperOne), The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and the Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us, co-authored with Douglas Knight (HarperOne), the edited Historical Jesus in Context (Princeton), and the fourteen-volume edited Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings (Continuum). With Marc Brettler she also edited the Jewish Annotated New Testament (Oxford). A self-described Yankee Jewish feminist, Professor Levine is a member of Congregation Sherith Israel, an Orthodox synagogue, although she is often quite unorthodox.