MeetingPoint and Atlantic Institute to Host National Jewish Heritage Month Event
May 19, 2015
Tuesday, May 26 at 6:30 p.m.
GREENVILLE, SC – MeetingPoint along with the Atlantic Institute are joining together for a special discussion during National Jewish Heritage Month.
Dr. Fred Leffert, who has deep roots in Greenville’s Jewish community, will be speaking about Jewish heritage in the Upstate on Tuesday, May 26 at 6:30 p.m. at the Hughes Main Library. Admission is free.
Each month, the Atlantic Institute focuses on a specific culture in the Upstate to learn and dialogue about the roots that each of them bring to make the region unique. Some of the city’s earliest Jewish immigrants came here to make a living as peddlers, tailors, merchants and businessmen and some like Max Heller laid a lot of the groundwork for Greenville’s renaissance. Fred Leffert received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Emory University in Atlanta, and he did his residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, followed by service in the U.S. Navy at the naval hospital in Portsmouth, Va.
After several years in academic medicine at the National Jewish Hospital in Denver and the University of Chicago School of Medicine, he returned to Greenville to start a practice in 1980. He is presently semi-retired — working part time at New Horizons. He has had a lifelong interest in Jewish studies and presently teaches courses in Jewish history and philosophy at Furman’s OLLI program.
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MeetingPoint is a United Interfaith Community, drawing together people of goodwill in prayer, study, fellowship and compassionate service. MeetingPoint is a direct outgrowth of Greenville’s Year of Altruism (YOA), which has taken our community to new heights of compassion, civic awareness, and social action. Learn more at www.facebook.com/MeetingPointSC.
