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Brit Hazon

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Brit Hazon Challenge for Sustainability


From Ken Dunn, Social Action Co-chair: Help us win $1,000 toward a sustainability project with The Brit Challenge! As a Seal of Sustainability site, we support our community’s dedication to green practices.

The Brit Hazon is a personal commitment to change for the planet. Each person who signs up brings us one point closer to the $1,000 grand prize. 

Signing up is easy! 

Visit Hazon.org/brit and select from 1 of 6 guided paths or lead yourself through the Brit Hazon. Make sure you select Beth Israel – The West Temple as your community group.  And if you join their Facebook Group, too, we get a bonus point!

 Anyone can sign up with our community group, so please share this with your friends & family!

ADL -Anti Defamation League

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Navigating Antisemitism on Social Media

You Are Not Alone: Navigating Antisemitism on Social Media

From the ADL 

Learn from ADL experts and gain the tools to help navigate the most recent spike in online antisemitism and hate:

  • Understand historic antisemitism and its modern day manifestations
  • Examine how digital platforms accelerate the spread of false information
  • Acquire the skills to respond to hate online effectively
  • Learn how ideas spread online can incite violence offline
  • Take action through advocacy and ADL initiatives like Backspace Hate and Stop Hate for Profit

Watch at your convenience: ADL Webinar link:  https://vimeo.com/580444108/3e78ee0f65

CommonGroundCLE

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Common Ground CLE 2021

Join Us for #CommonGroundCle 2021

Now celebrating its fifth anniversary, Common Ground challenges individuals, organizations and community leaders to build, join and share conversations across our region each summer. 

Traditionally held on one day, this year’s anniversary event will expand to two weeks of community conversations from July 16-30. All Common Ground conversations have the same goal: to create spaces where meaningful connections are made and purposeful actions begin. This year, we invite the community to gather around our fifth anniversary theme: Growing Common Ground: People, Place, Shared Power.  All Common Ground events are free to attend.

 

THIS Sunday, July 25

10 a.m. – Plastic Surgery: Cutting Plastic Out of Your Life 

Beachwood Community Center 25325 Fairmount Blvd. Beachwood, OH 44122

Cathi Lehn, Sustainable Cleveland Manager with the City of Cleveland Office of Sustainability, and the Plastic Reduction Working Group will serve as your hosts during this interactive conversation focusing on alternatives to plastic packaging. A brief overview of the issue of plastic pollution will be followed by a conversation on new and exciting packaging alternatives. Participants will have an opportunity to imagine and design alternatives for packaging for common household items. The workshop will conclude with ideas for action and a tour of Ron Shelton’s HAF Connects: sustainable art of plastics art exhibit. 

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

2 p.m. – What is Critical Race Theory?

1876 S GREEN RD, South Euclid, OH 44121

Learning and understanding all history creates common ground. Critical Race Theory (CRT) is about people, place, and shared power. Join us for a safe and thoughtful conversation about CRT.

REGISTER HERE

4:30 p.m. – Muslim and Jewish Women talking Common Ground 

Edwins Restaurant Patio 13101 Shaker Square Shaker Hts., OH 44120

Join a first-of-a- kind Muslim – Jewish group of women to celebrate the 5th year of Common Ground. This year’s theme is “People, Place, Shared Power.” It will be used as an invitation to ask questions and share opinions around: “How can we strengthen the connections between us to build our community?” We will get to know each other, engage in a facilitated discussion, use metaphoric cards, and other treats that will give meaning to our shared time together. This is a safe space that will allow us to hold a friendly, challenging, and authentic conversation.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Best regards,

Ken Dunn, Co-Chair

Social Action committee

Jewish Cleveland

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Be kind to Mother Earth

Drink Local. Drink Tap.  A summertime volunteer opportunity in partnership with Be kind to Mother Earth! Learn about water sustainability as you walk Perkins Beach (rain or shine) collecting trash, litter, and other debris. Items picked up will be tallied and used to create policy changes that help protect our Great Lakes. Date and time: Sun, July 25, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT Location: Perkins Beach7600 Cleveland Memorial ShorewayCleveland, OH 44102 REGISTER HERE Looking for more volunteer opportunities?Follow this link… for places to volunteer in Cleveland

Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt

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Combating Antisemitism

Combating Antisemitism

A conversation with Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt 

Come together online with the Jewish and general Cleveland community for a virtual event with acclaimed author and historian Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt. She joins us to discuss the rise in antisemitism and Jew hatred and how we can work together to combat it.

Thursday, June 24

4:30 – 5:45 pm

REGISTER NOW

DR. DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University. She has written several books including Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory; History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier; The Eichmann Trial; Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust; and most recently, Antisemitism: Here and Now. Dr. Lipstadt has spent her professional career tackling the question of antisemitism and how we as Jews need to respond.

For more information, please contact Jackie Reed at jreed@jcfcleve.org or 216-593-2858.

Rosh Chodesh

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Circle of Friends – Rosh Chodesh Tammuz

NEXT WEEK Rosh Chodesh Tammuz will be our final get together for the year.  We will be celebrating NEXT Wednesday, June 9th at 6:00 PM.  We are hoping that we can meet in the Metroparks at the Rocky River Reservation.  If the weather cooperates, we can enjoy a wonderful evening outdoors.  If the weather is fickle, we have our trusty Zoom to fall back on. Rabbi will do a short service for Rosh Chodesh. We will review our programs from this past year, and we would like you to bring ideas for the coming year.  If you can’t join us, you can send your ideas to Barbara Schwartz’s email:  baschwartz@cox.net 

Bring your own box lunch or dinner.  

We will bring cupcakes and drinks for everyone.  

We hope to claim the covered shelter near the parking lot by the Ricky River — Look for a balloon or two to mark where we are.

Bring a folding chair, as we may wish to form a circle.  

There are restrooms nearby.

There’s parking and a scenic trail along the river.  

While we many not need our masks, please bring one to wear, as we do not know who has immunity.  

 To get to the picnic area of the Emerald Necklace Marina, it may be best to enter the park from Detroit Rd at the western end of Lakewood, across from Sloane Avenue.  There is a traffic light at the intersection and you drive down Valley Parkway into the park.  The entrance is the first entrance on the right; make a right and drive straight ahead towards the Rocky River and picnic area.  If you get lost or can’t find us, please call Barbara Schwartz:  216-973-2489. [FYI — Sections of Valley Parkway have been closed to cars to allow people to walk or bike and be socially distanced.]  Please check your email that afternoon.  Rabbi will send out an email update, especially if the weather is not cooperating, with a Zoom link.   RSVP — We would also appreciate if you would let us know if you are coming so we can plan for the desserts and drinks:  baschwartz@cox.net It will be wonderful to see you in person or on Zoom – bringing joy and celebration to one another!                Wishes for a Chodesh Tov – a good month!  Barbara Schwartzbaschwartz@cox.net

Notorious RBG

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Learn ‘n Lunch with RBG

Learn ‘n Lunch with RBG

Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage sets 'Notorious RBG: The ...
Learn ‘n Lunch In-Person with Rabbi Lader & FriendsWednesday, June 16th10:30 a.m.at the Maltz Museum$12/adult – $10/over 60We have a limited number of tickets.Contact Linda Kramer to RSVP no later than June 9th – lindagkramer@yahoo.com or call 216-533-9496 We plan to meet up for lunch after — around 12:30 p.m. at Taza Lebanese Grill:28601 Chagrin Blvd. Woodmere, OH 44122
(at Eton Square) Learn more about the exhibit: https://www.maltzmuseum.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/

All the World's a Stage Fright

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Lunch ‘n’ Learn with Rabbi and Friends

You are cordially invited…

THIS Tuesday, May 18th Noon   
  Bob Abelman, award-winning theater critic and arts columnist for the Cleveland Jewish News, will be our featured guest speaker. Read his book ahead of time OR just come to meet Bob Abelman and hear about his career in theater… and beyond. In a virtual “book club gathering,” participants are invited to discuss Abelman’s new novella ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE FRIGHT.  The book is a laugh out loud, fast-paced fictionalized memoir about one Jewish journalist’s journey across the footlights to take on an acting role in a top-tier production of “As You Like It.”  He tackles this hurdle in order to write about the experience, despite his personal battle with the Bard and having to share the stage with actors he’s panned in the past! In addition to leading a lively discussion about the book, Abelman will talk about the Cleveland theater scene, Shakespeare’s anti-Semitism, and the process of writing arts criticism.  The book is $14.95 and available in paperback and ebooks at amazon.com, other online retailers, and directly from the local publisher at grayco.com. RSVP to rabbi@thewesttemple.com or call the temple office at 216-941-8882. Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/99546161373?pwd=WGE5RFYwT0lFN0JFWGhqci90Ylg5Zz09 Meeting ID: 995 4616 1373Passcode: 982930Dial in: 646 876 9923

Kitchen Shower 2

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You’re Invited to a Kitchen Shower

You’re Invited to a (virtual) Kitchen Shower

 By the Kitchen Renovation Committeefor the 21st Century Renovation Campaign Best Cooking Utensils Illustrations, Royalty-Free Vector ...       Dishware clipart - Clipground  Spring is here, and our temple kitchen remodeling project is almost complete! We hope you will love our reorganized space, clear countertops, plentiful storage cabinets, improved lighting, and efficient new appliances. One day soon, we’ll even be able to come together in our temple again—to hold services, onegs and kiddushes, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, holiday dinners and potlucks of all kinds.  In the process of redoing the kitchen, we need to outfit our kitchen with beautiful and new items for cooking and serving.  So we’re having a (virtual) Kitchen Shower!  Members of your Kitchen Renovation Committee (Beryl Palnik, Nancy Eilberg, Vale Tate, and Judith Weiss) have created a registry of things we’ll need, and you are invited to help us acquire them.   Julia DiBiaggio has set up a website with photos of the objects we want to buy from Dean Supply and other kitchen stores, making it easy to see what we need, and to send in contributions to cover those purchases.  You don’t have to travel to the stores or buy these items yourself.  We can get them for you wholesale!  Just send in your donation to cover the items you like, and the enjoy a feeling of satisfaction when you whip up something delicious in our new pots, or serve yourself from our new platters on a groaning buffet table.  Check out the website at www.zola.com/registry/bitwt and help us make our kitchen party-ready!

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