Special Speaker at Fairmount Temple

Rev. Leah Lewis, author of the upcoming book, Human Striving: Undoing the Conundrum of ‘Race,’ will speak at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple (23737 Fairmount Blvd., Beachwood) on Friday, Oct. 14, at 6:15 p.m. as part
of the Kabbalat Shabbat Service, which is open to all.  

 Rev. Lewis was a Wall Street banker in New York City when the planes hit the Twin Towers.  That experience forever changed her relationship to humanity and transformed her own spiritual journey. She quit her job and enrolled at Yale Divinity School.
Always unmistakably proud of being an African-American woman, she became even more fascinated by the notion of race and how it informs who we are and—perhaps
even more important—how we perceive others. 

In her book, Rev. Lewis examines religious, legal and political rhetoric that is “racial.” Following a reception after the service, there will be a Q&A at 7:30 p.m. with Rev. Lewis, who is also associate organizer with
the Greater Cleveland Congregations and associate pastor at Olivet Institutional Baptist Church.