Rabbi Marc Kline to speak at Temple Sinai for Shabbat

Temple Sinai welcomes guest Rabbi Marc Aaron Kline to conduct Shabbat services Friday evening at 6:15 p.m. Kline, who hails from Lexington, KY., will be delivering a sermon titled “The Other, Even Amongst Ourselves.”

Rabbi Marc Aaron Kline of Temple Adath Israel of Lexington, KY.

Kline and his wife Lori are in New Orleans on vacation. A longtime friend of Temple Sinai Cantor Joel Colman, Kline accepted an invitation from him to conduct the Shabbat service.  The two were seminary classmates together at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem 1990.

Kline, who is the spiritual leader of Temple Adath Israel in Lexington, KY. was ordained in 1995, from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion. Prior to moving to Lexington nine years ago, he served the Beth Israel Congregation in Florence, South Carolina. Kline was a former resident of New Orleans, having  earned a B.A. degree from Tulane University. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from the School of Law at the  University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He also has earned a Masters degree in Hebrew letters from Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion.

For the past decade and a half, Kline has taught ethics, philosophy, religion and government courses on the high school, college, and graduate school levels. He periodically serves as an adjunct instructor at several higher institutions of learning including the University of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University and also has taught courses dealing with Jewish-Christian relations and pastoral care at Transylvania University and the Disciples of Christ Lexington Theological Seminary.