Join us for the upcoming Pray, Eat, Learn program on Friday, May 4, featuring Professor Amy-Jill Levine.

Professor Levine will be discussing "Judaism and Christianity: Common Roots; Different Branches".

This is an adult service, dinner and learning program. No babysitting will be provided. Cost per person for dinner and dessert is $18. Please RSVP by May 1, to 615-269-4592 or office@westendsyn.org.

Shabbat Services will begin at 6:00 p.m. and will be followed by Shabbat dinner and our guest speaker. Of course you are invited to join us every Friday evening for our traditional Kabbalat Shabbat Services in the Hassenfeld Chapel or for Shabbat Unplugged, a service with musical accompaniment in the Sacks East Chapel.

Amy-Jill Levine is the University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies, and Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School and College of Arts and Science in Nashville, TN; she is also Affiliated Professor, Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge UK. She has a B.A. from Smith College, M.A. and a Ph.D. from Duke University. Her recent books include The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and the Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us, co-authored with Douglas Knight, and the Jewish Annotated New Testament, co-edited with Marc Brettler.