Christian leaders on way to Hartman Institute
Starting tonight at the Shalom Hartman Institute is the first Christian Leadership Initiative. It’s a remarkable program, and we’ll see what comes of it. The idea is to teach U.S. Christian leaders about Judaism, in a Jewish way, with lectures, and text and havruta study. The program was set up to mirror the Institute’s ongoing Rabbinic Leadership Initiative, now in its third cohort
According to Rabbis Bill Berk, the Institute’s Director of Rabbinic Enrichment, and Gary Greenebaum, the U.S. Director for Interreligious Affairs of program co-sponsor American Jewish Committee, the program is aimed at helping “sustain and create religion that will repair and strengthen us,” and calls on the attendees to “come and learn with us” and “look at how we wrestle with God, with our problems, with ourselves
