Yom Kippur Community Zoom Study Sessions
Monday, September 28 starting at 1:00 pm
Join us for a nourishing session of words and music, poetry and movement with our neighboring Reform congregations, including Beth David, Brith Achim, and Brith Chaim, that will strengthen you on this day and give you resources for the days to come. Pre-registration is required!
1:00 – 1:45 pm: Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell – Return to the Land of Your Soul: Reclaiming our Precious Legacy in these Unprecedented Days
Rabbi Elwell, PhD. is the editor of The Open Door Haggadah, the award-winning Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of Our Lives, and Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation. She has spent the last four decades strengthening congregations and communities, focusing on the intersection of spirituality and justice work. She serves as Spiritual Director at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and with individuals across the country.
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2:00 -2:45 pm: Rabbi Eric Lazar – Making Loss Matter: How to negotiate and process lost opportunities, feelings of isolation, a lost sense of “normalcy” and control in our lives – and information about accessing available support resources with Roberta Locke MSW, LSW, BCD and Psychologist, Shelley M. Weber PhD
Rabbi Lazar gained extensive pulpit experience at congregations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Florida, before becoming the Rabbi at Temple Brith Achim in King of Prussia. He holds a BA from University of Michigan, Masters Degree from HUC-JIR, and was ordained in 2001.
Roberta Locke, better known as Bobbie, received a BA and an MSW from the University of Minnesota. Bobbie worked as a Social Worker in various capacities in Minnesota, as well as in New York State. In 1980, Bobbie moved to Pennsylvania, with her husband and two sons, where she attended the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. Bobbie has been doing individual therapy with adults for more than 30 years, and has run some parenting groups as well.
Shelley Marged Weber, Ph.D. FPPR is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in treating trauma. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and has had post-doctoral training and certification in Hypnotherapy, Thought Field Therapy, Psychopharmacology, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT). She is also a Reiki Master. Shelley has taught at LaSalle University in the undergraduate departments of Psychology and Sociology and was also a member of the faculty of the LaSalle Master’s Program in Pastoral Counseling. She has been in Private Practice in Wayne, Pennsylvania since 1984.
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2:00 -2:45 pm: Rabbi Richard Steinbrink - What should a Jew believe? How do you relate to the concepts of God, Torah, and Israel?
Rabbi Richard Steinbrink is a native of Brooklyn, NY. He held pulpits in Somerville and Red Bank, NJ; St. Louis, MO; Newburgh, NY; and Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia for 17 years. Rabbi Steinbrink Just retired after 21 years as part-time Jewish Chaplain at Jefferson Hospital. After retirement, he was also the Director of Institutional Advancement at Community College of Philadelphia. Rabbi Steinbrink is a proud father of 3 and grandfather of 5.
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3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Janet Lee – Guided Meditation. Yom Kippur is a time of reflection and introspection. Join our Executive Director for a ½ hour of guided meditation to go inward and find some peace of mind.
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3:00 - 3:45 pm: Jeane Harris - What Jews of Color Experience in our Metro Philly Jewish Community. Seize the fierce urgency of now in a panel discussion engaging conversation on racial justice and audacious hospitality in our congregations.
American Judaism and our congregations are enjoying the blessing of increased heritage diversity. Join members of our community in a reflection on the personal experiences of Jews of Color in our Metro Philly Jewish Community with a special focus on the call to champion racial justice at this critical moment.
Jeane Harris feels at home almost everywhere. Like the creators of Superman, she hails from Cleveland, OH and graduated from Glenville High School. After majoring in History at Denison University in Granville, OH, she moved to Philadelphia in 1984. Marriage to a Havertown native led to nine moves on three continents over twenty-five years as American diplomats, with the bulk of those years working and traveling in Africa. Jeane taught in international schools in west Africa, administered grants to benefit orphans and vulnerable children impacted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in southern Africa, raised a daughter and son, and found Jewish community in every single place, even when it was DIY. Since her return to the US, Jeane’s adventures have a more local flavor—organic gardening, creative cooking, making music, pursuing Justice. She and her husband Andy reside in West Chester, surrounded by woods and wildlife.
Click here to register.
Monday, September 28 starting at 1:00 pm
Join us for a nourishing session of words and music, poetry and movement with our neighboring Reform congregations, including Beth David, Brith Achim, and Brith Chaim, that will strengthen you on this day and give you resources for the days to come. Pre-registration is required!
1:00 – 1:45 pm: Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell – Return to the Land of Your Soul: Reclaiming our Precious Legacy in these Unprecedented Days
Rabbi Elwell, PhD. is the editor of The Open Door Haggadah, the award-winning Chapters of the Heart: Jewish Women Sharing the Torah of Our Lives, and Lesbian Rabbis: The First Generation. She has spent the last four decades strengthening congregations and communities, focusing on the intersection of spirituality and justice work. She serves as Spiritual Director at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and with individuals across the country.
Click here to register.
2:00 -2:45 pm: Rabbi Eric Lazar – Making Loss Matter: How to negotiate and process lost opportunities, feelings of isolation, a lost sense of “normalcy” and control in our lives – and information about accessing available support resources with Roberta Locke MSW, LSW, BCD and Psychologist, Shelley M. Weber PhD
Rabbi Lazar gained extensive pulpit experience at congregations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Florida, before becoming the Rabbi at Temple Brith Achim in King of Prussia. He holds a BA from University of Michigan, Masters Degree from HUC-JIR, and was ordained in 2001.
Roberta Locke, better known as Bobbie, received a BA and an MSW from the University of Minnesota. Bobbie worked as a Social Worker in various capacities in Minnesota, as well as in New York State. In 1980, Bobbie moved to Pennsylvania, with her husband and two sons, where she attended the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. Bobbie has been doing individual therapy with adults for more than 30 years, and has run some parenting groups as well.
Shelley Marged Weber, Ph.D. FPPR is a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in treating trauma. She received her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and has had post-doctoral training and certification in Hypnotherapy, Thought Field Therapy, Psychopharmacology, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and Emotional Transformation Therapy (ETT). She is also a Reiki Master. Shelley has taught at LaSalle University in the undergraduate departments of Psychology and Sociology and was also a member of the faculty of the LaSalle Master’s Program in Pastoral Counseling. She has been in Private Practice in Wayne, Pennsylvania since 1984.
Click here to register.
2:00 -2:45 pm: Rabbi Richard Steinbrink - What should a Jew believe? How do you relate to the concepts of God, Torah, and Israel?
Rabbi Richard Steinbrink is a native of Brooklyn, NY. He held pulpits in Somerville and Red Bank, NJ; St. Louis, MO; Newburgh, NY; and Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia for 17 years. Rabbi Steinbrink Just retired after 21 years as part-time Jewish Chaplain at Jefferson Hospital. After retirement, he was also the Director of Institutional Advancement at Community College of Philadelphia. Rabbi Steinbrink is a proud father of 3 and grandfather of 5.
Click here to register.
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm: Janet Lee – Guided Meditation. Yom Kippur is a time of reflection and introspection. Join our Executive Director for a ½ hour of guided meditation to go inward and find some peace of mind.
Click here to register.
3:00 - 3:45 pm: Jeane Harris - What Jews of Color Experience in our Metro Philly Jewish Community. Seize the fierce urgency of now in a panel discussion engaging conversation on racial justice and audacious hospitality in our congregations.
American Judaism and our congregations are enjoying the blessing of increased heritage diversity. Join members of our community in a reflection on the personal experiences of Jews of Color in our Metro Philly Jewish Community with a special focus on the call to champion racial justice at this critical moment.
Jeane Harris feels at home almost everywhere. Like the creators of Superman, she hails from Cleveland, OH and graduated from Glenville High School. After majoring in History at Denison University in Granville, OH, she moved to Philadelphia in 1984. Marriage to a Havertown native led to nine moves on three continents over twenty-five years as American diplomats, with the bulk of those years working and traveling in Africa. Jeane taught in international schools in west Africa, administered grants to benefit orphans and vulnerable children impacted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic in southern Africa, raised a daughter and son, and found Jewish community in every single place, even when it was DIY. Since her return to the US, Jeane’s adventures have a more local flavor—organic gardening, creative cooking, making music, pursuing Justice. She and her husband Andy reside in West Chester, surrounded by woods and wildlife.
Click here to register.