Byline: LISA GARDINER Religion News Service
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. -- A Jew studying the New Testament? When he was an undergraduate, Rabbi Harry Manhoff scoffed at the idea. That's when he first read the Christian Scriptures for a religion course.
The experience filled him with rage.
``I grew up in a small suburban community in New Jersey, where anti-Semitism was rampant,'' he said.
But these days, this Reform rabbi and leader of Temple Beth Sholom in San Leandro, Calif., quotes the Gospels with ease. He's apt to describe Jesus as a miracle worker, charismatic leader, or sage in a lecture at a synagogue or church. He is completing a doctoral dissertation on the New Testament for the …
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