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The Jewish Christian Discovery Center (JCDC) in Atlanta and the Catholic Church of St. Ann in Marietta are launching a monthly lunch series studying the Bible through interfaith connections. JCDC Executive Director Rabbi Albert Slomovitz and Father J. Eliscar Lamartine will lead participants in exploring biblical passages from both the Jewish and Catholic traditions. Each lunch and learn session will include a reading of scripture with interpretations by both religious leaders.
The first session will take place on September 29, 12:00-1:30pm in the Donnellan Room at St. Ann’s. Both Rabbi Slomovitz and Father Lamartine will host the lunch & learns on Mondays during the next ten months.
The goal is to foster friendship between the two communities, promote mutual understanding, and remind everyone that people of different faiths are often more alike than different. Together, they will engage in respectful, nonjudgmental dialogue that honors differences while celebrating shared values.
“What better way can there be to read the scriptures together in friendship and respect,” Rabbi Slomovitz said. “Each month I will sit alongside my friend Father Lamartine and read some of the Bible with him. Then we get to explain our perspectives with a Jewish and Catholic audience.”
The lunch & learn series reflects one of former Pope Francis’s teachings, “Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.”
JCDC and St. Ann’s have worked together on many projects in the past five years including the annual blessing of Christmas trees after Thanksgiving, the J Star Christmas campaign, and Breaking Badness Choosing Goodness Easter and Passover prayer service. JCDC is a non-profit educational foundation whose mission is to reduce antisemitism and other forms of intolerance. It publishes children’s books in English and Spanish about Judaism and Jesus’ Jewish life. It produced the award-winning film, “The Magical Encounter.”
For more information, click here. To register, click here.
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