UMW AR/PR Action Team Event: “Should Christians Hold Seders?” Feb. 19

Speaker: Rabbi Marc Kline, Senior Interim Rabbi at Temple Ohev Shalom in Harrisburg, PA

Marc Kline retired his law license to go to Rabbinical school. Now, over 30 years later, he serves as Senior Interim Rabbi at Temple Ohev Sholom in Harrisburg, PA. Over his career, Marc has served in 3 previous communities and been active in Justice and Interfaith work locally, regionally, and globally. He feels blessed to bring his experience to our community, committing to continuing his growth and ours over the years we will spend together.

Rabbi Kline serves as Vice-President of the Jerusalem Peace Institute, member of the Board of Trustees for “Be The Blessing” (an inter-religious international think tank and educational organization focused on world refugees), advisor to Muslims 4 Peace, and as a member of the Gandhi King Season of Non-Violence Board. Before joining our community, Rabbi served the broader New Jersey Jewish Community as the co-founder of the New Jersey Interfaith Alliance, the Chair of Interfaith Activities for the Heart of New Jersey Jewish Federation, and led two interfaith clergy trips to Israel on behalf of the Federation. He taught as an adjunct instructor of pastoral care and multi-faith worship at the Lexington Theological Seminary; history, philosophy, and ethics at the University of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, Coker College, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Kline served as the lead consultant with Crestwood Christian Church as it re-envisioned its “Christian Mission;” as co-creator of the Lay Chaplaincy team for the Lexington, KY, Red Bank, NJ, and Monmouth County Prosecutor Police Departments; chaired the Chaplaincy Advisory Board of St. Joseph / Kentucky One Health Hospital in Lexington; and as volunteer Chaplain for the Hackensack Meridian Hospital System’s four Central NJ hospitals. His article on homosexuality published in “The Insight” (United Methodist Church’s national magazine) spawned the debate at the recent convention over homosexual clergy and marriage within the international church.

Rabbi Kline’s justice work spans a lifetime. He helped end the male / female separation in Kiwanis Youth in high school and co-planned and led the 2000 march on Columbia, SC, to remove the Confederate flag from atop the Statehouse. He is active in peace and pluralism work across the United States and Israel/Palestine.

Marc’s primary focus as Rabbi roots in a several thousand-year-old precept found in Pirke Avot (amongst the earliest of Rabbinic writings): “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what good am I? If not now, when?” As he sees it, community building is Torah’s primary goal. Our work in faith must take care of everyone, not just those in our circle. He works to bridge the chasms that alienate people from each other. In that role, he serves on many local, regional, and national boards. Blessed to have loving and sagacious teachers throughout his Rabbinical training and career, Marc feels compelled to pay forward the many blessings he has experienced.

Marc has been widowed (the late Cindy Kline) and remarried. His wife, Lori Bernard, and he claim seven children, three children-in-law, and two grandsons between them.

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