Your Public Radio and the ICJS
Winter 2003
   With support from the Children of Harvey and Lyn Meyerhoff Fund, the Jane and Worth Daniels Fund of the Baltimore Com-munity Foundation, and the Marco Goodman Trust, the ICJS will produce two hour-long pilot radio programs hosted by Sanford Ungar, President of Goucher College and former host of NPR's All Things Considered. The programs will focus on a variety of issues and questions, including the role of religion in American politics, violence and religion, and anti-Judaism and choral music. Participants will be drawn from the ICJS's sig-nificant relationships with nationally ranked scholars, writers, and religious professionals. The programs will be offered to public radio stations across the country, including WYPR in Baltimore.
   After analyzing the local response to our pilot programs, the ICJS will produce and market additional programs for regional and national NPR distribution. Future programs will focus on the influence of Judaism and Christianity on current religious conflicts around the world, the role of religious pluralism in the developing world, and the changing nature of religious lead-ership -- Martin Luther King to Osama bin Laden.

Regional Clergy Study Days
Spring 2004
   Last year's National Jewish Scholars Project Clergy Consul-tation brought together a diverse and inquisitive group of clergy whose passion and ideas are helping shape Jewish-Christian relations throughout the northeast. On the heels of this success, Rabbi Charles Arian and a steering committee of 2003 Consultation participants have planned two regional study days for clergy and religious educators. The study days, scheduled for Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia in the spring of 2004, will extend the NJSP's outreach activities and intro-duce a broader segment of clergy and religious educators to interfaith dialogue and study.

The Spring Christian Clergy Discussion
-- Dr. Barclay M. Newman
April 22, 2004
   The Reverend Barclay Newman will be the featured speaker on Thursday, April 22, 2004 at the Institute's spring lecture for Christian clergy. Dr. Newman heads the American Bible Society translation team that, in 1991, introduced the Contemporary English Version (CEV) New Testament, a fresh new rendering of the Scriptures that appeals to both beginning and experi-enced Bible readers.
   "The translator's most difficult job is that of ‘restructuring’   -- bringing the meaning of the Greek or Hebrew text into English in such a way that the English style is creative, clear, and natural," Newman has said. "The translators of the CEV believe that they have a calling and a responsibility to make the Word of God available in language that everyone in the English-speaking world can understand and appreciate."
   Dr. Newman's lecture will center on the CEV's 1996 transla-tion and its rendering of "the Jews" in John's gospel as "the Jewish leaders" (e.g., John 20:19).
   Dr. Newman is a Southern Baptist clergyman. He holds a Ph.D. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and has been Senior Translator for the American Bible Society since 1989. He has done further study at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio; the Summer Institute of Linguistics at the University of Oklahoma; and the Hartford Foundation in Connecticut.

For information on these programs, please call Laura Riger, Director of Programs and Administration, at 410-523-7227.