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.
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.
Town Hall Discussion – Feeding the Hungry in Northeast Ohio Beth Israel – The West Temple, and Peter Sackett, will host a Town Hall Discussion,with Kristin Warzocha, President and CEO, Greater Cleveland Food Bank, and Lona Gruber, founding director of the SCAN Hunger Center Pantry. Our guests will discuss their paths to leadership, challenges in their positions, goals and needs for the upcoming holiday season and other issues. Questions may be submitted via Chat Room during the live stream. Here is the YouTube link to the livestream https://youtu.be/b2J2jRfQdbM
NEXT Monday, November 23rd, 7:30-9:00 p.m. Join B’nai Jeshurun Congregation as they once again host:THE ARTS OF THANKSGIVINGfeaturing visual and performing artists from a variety of faithsand cultural backgrounds, expressing the beautiful diversity of our city through music,art and dance. This will be our 10th annual Arts of Thanksgiving. This year will be no different as we welcome performing artists from a variety of faiths and cultural backgrounds. The evening will feature pre-recorded performances and will include messages from clergy and organizational leaders across Cleveland. Registration is required.REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE
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This year’s fourth annual West Park Community Interfaith Thanksgiving Service will take place at 7:00 p.m. NEXT Tuesday, November 24th.Since this event is always quite large, our hope is to keep us all safe by offering this event virtually. Each of our communities will be highlighted* as we worship our God together. Everyone is also invited to offer a donation to the food pantry of your choice, that others might be filled during this season. The event will take place online at https://westparkucc.org/livestream *Rabbi Lader and Charlotte Feldman will be representing our congregation.
We’ll slowly go through the Shabbat services and invite everyone to make comments and ask questions as we go along. We might find that discussions get stuck in a certain area because people really want to think about and discuss the details we can’t contemplate in the short time frame of a service. It’s fine, for example, to dwell on the multiple translations of the same Hebrew text and consider their different implications. Or, to take the time needed to really look at those footnotes and understand why they are there.
It will be helpful if you have picked up a copy of Mishkan T’filah.
