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Women In the Rabbinate (or What Will They Call Your Husband?)
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Rabbi Debra Orenstein
Shabbat Morning Services, May 3 Shaarey Zedek • 9:00 A.M.
A Holiness Code for Contemporary Jews
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Sunday, May 4 Women's League for Conservative Judaism
B'nai Moshe • 12:45 P.M. Lunch*
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New Perspectives on Life Cycle, Spirituality and Gender: A Woman's View
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Friday Evening Shabbat Service and Family* Dinner, May 9
Adat Shalom Synagogue • 6:00 P.M.
The Shema: And You Shall Teach Them To Your Children
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WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
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t's the time of year when
And in Virginia, Gov. George
Jews reflect on slavery and Allen Jr. proudly proclaimed
liberation, and when we re- April "Confederate History and
alize anew the endless con- Heritage Month," despite the
sequences of that collective shocked outrage of civil rights
experience: Thousands of years leaders.
later, we still mark our own de-
The first story showed how
liverance from oppression with bigots like Mr. Farrakhan are
one of the year's most important making it harder for Jews to do
holidays.
what they have to do — fight to
And it's a time when we
naturally think about oth-
er groups that face op-
pression, discrimination
and the bitter legacy of
slavery.
But in today's world,
with intergroup tensions
on the rise and the Jewish
community facing anti-
Semitism from unexpect-
ed quarters, that empathy
— which is really just self-
interest in disguise — is
harder to muster.
Two recent news stories
point to the Jewish com-
munity's growing confu-
sion over racial justice, and
to the fact that even with
that confusion, we need to
be an active force in work-
ing for reconciliation, not
merely one more group
shrilly demanding our own
rights and ignoring the
plight of others.
In Philadelphia, a rally Louis Farrakhan again.
to promote racial reconcil-
iation generated storms of con- bridge a racial chasm that
troversy because of the threatens the foundations of
participation of Nation of Islam American democracy.
leader Louis Farrakhan.
The second shows why that
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"There could be significant
problems if RFRA is overturned,
depending on the grounds for the
decision," said Marc Stern, legal
director for the American Jew-
ish Congress and a major play-
er in the coalition that passed
the law in 1993.
He said that a sweeping deci-
sion restricting the right of state
and federal governments to pass
specific laws protecting religious
liberties could force backers to
seek a constitutional amend-
ment — something that would
be even harder than the original
RFRA battle, and a prospect that
leaves many Jewish activists un-
easy.
"At this point, there's no inch-
cation of what the court will do,"
he said. "But the possibility that
it could be overturned is some-
thing that we have been dis-
cussing, in terms of the options
we'd face."
The Rev. Louis Farrakhan has some white help in
raising the race card again.
Shabbat Morning Services, May 10 Adat Shalom Synagogue • 9:00 A.M.
A Holiness Code for Contemporary Jews
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ried about things like how it
would affect seniority in the
workplace. So you might say
there has been no rush to get this
thing moving."
If this sounds like deja vu, it
should; the first version of the re-
ligious accommodations bill was
introduced in the late 1980s, but
abandoned in 1990 after a
Supreme Court ruling in the so-
called peyote case forced Jewish
groups to fight for even more fun-
damental religious liberties — a
battle that eventually produced
the Religious Freedom Restora-
tion Act.
RFRA itself is under review
by the Supreme Court, with a de-
cision expected in several
months. And Jewish activists are
beginning to think about their
options if the law, which makes
it harder for the government to
make rules limiting religious
practices, is cast aside.
Slavery And Liberation
Friday evening Shabbat Service, May 9
Adat Shalom Young Adult Services • 8:00 P.M.
Israel-Diaspora Relations: Beyond Security and Philanthropy
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