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Todah Rabbah
The Congregational Kiddush on November
20 was sponsored by Lenore Meyers and
Mark Sugarman in honor of their daughter
Ilana Rose Meyers Sugarman becoming a
Bat Mitzvah.
The Congregation congratulates the
Meyers-Sugarman family on their joyous
occasion.
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We welcome the following Congregants
who have joined BHC since December:
Brian Goldstein
Chad Libraty
Kate Benjamin & Jonathan Weiner
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Baltimore Hebrew Congregation Bulletin • Number 5 • 25 Tevet – 26 Shevat 5771 • January 2011
From The Clergy
Not Joking
A rabbi, a priest, and a minister were sitting on an El Al airplane…
In November, that honestly is how I found myself seated on a flight to Israel.
I wasn’t surprised, because I am honored to be involved with the Maryland
Clergy Initiative. The Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies and the
Baltimore Jewish Council sponsored this opportunity for approximately 20
Christian and Jewish clergy to study together for several months (since April),
travel to Israel together, and continue our studies upon returning (already
happening). The experience has been full of deeply serious conversations,
fresh ideas and insights, and plenty of laughter. All three of these components
have been crucial components of building relationships among religious
leaders, and thus hopefully religious communities, in the Baltimore region.
There are a few overlapping goals of this initiative: to build those
relationships which may deepen our general community on a number of levels,
to deepen an understanding of Israel and her context while providing insights
regarding the Palestinians and their context, and to provide for dialogue that
might enhance the nature of discussion regarding Israel on a local and even
national level within religious denominations. On our trip, we met with a
variety of government, religious, military, and academic personalities. Our
experiences ranged from standing where Jesus preached on the edge of the
Kinneret to receiving a briefing in the Knesset, from visiting with Palestinian
Authority Prime Minister Fayyad in Ramallah to welcoming Shabbat at Reform
Congregation Kol Haneshama in Jerusalem.
We discussed borders, the differences between Christian denominations,
our own personal histories, and our reactions to the various holy sites we
visited and speakers we encountered. We returned to Baltimore as friends who
shared a renewed humility regarding our knowledge and our limitations. We
find ourselves at home studying together, reaching out to one another, and
grappling with the sweetness and complexities of Israel.
A rabbi, a priest, and a minister were sitting on an El Al airplane… randomly;
I was seated with the same two colleagues on our return flight, transformed
and inspired.
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