Shabbat Speakers
Save the following dates for our Shabbat Speakers and look for updated information both in the Temple Bulletin and by e-mail.
November 13: Rabbi Samuel Joseph on Leadership Development at the Taste of Shabbat Program
Rabbi Samuel K. Joseph, Ph.D. is Professor of Jewish Education and Leadership Development at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, where he teaches in the rabbinical school. His special interest is how Jewish institutions and organizations, from schools to synagogues to national groups, can excel as they seek to fulfill their mission and vision. Toward this end, Rabbi Joseph works with such groups throughout the world. Most recently he taught at the first rabbinical seminary in Germany since the Holocaust, the Abraham Geiger Kollege in Berlin as the Jacobs Fellow. In past years he worked with the Jewish community in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Argentina. He is the founding rabbi of the liberal congregation in Hong Kong. Rabbi Joseph consults with rabbis, educators, administrators, communal leaders and lay leaders, supporting them as they lead their institutions and organizations. He is the author of four books and more than fifty articles in the area of education and leadership. He served as Temple Sinai's HUC faculty advisor during our participation in the Experiment in Congregational Education during the 1990s.
December 18: Brian Jenkins, Executive Director of the New Covenant House of Hospitality in Stamford will speak on his personal journey
The New Covenant House of Hospitality is an ecumenical hospitality center for the homeless, poor, and disadvantaged in the Lower Fairfield County area provides companionship, meals, provisions, appropriate council, referrals to other community services, basic medical services, and other feasible services to the guests. New Covenant House offers volunteers the opportunity to give meaningful help to neighbors in need and fosters a climate of fellowship among workers and guests in the spirit of the Judeo-Christian tradition.
New Covenant House is an inner-city soup kitchen located on the West Side of Stamford. New Covenant House was established in 1978 with the mission to provide nutritious meals to the poor, the homeless, and the disadvantaged in the Greenwich, Stamford, Darien, and New Canaan area. New Covenant House was founded on the premise that all are welcome and that each person who passes through their door is to be treated with the same respect and dignity that one would provide to a guest in our own home. Additionally, their mission is to provide help, where possible, so that each person who enters will have an opportunity to become self-sufficient and reintegrate themselves into the mainstream of society.
January 15: MLK Speaker - TBA
January 22: Jill Savitt, Executive Director and Founder of the Genocide Prevention Project
Jill Savitt directs the Genocide Prevention Project, launched in October 2008, to build global political will to press the international community to fulfill its obligation to prevent mass atrocity crimes
(www.preventorprotect.org).
The Genocide Prevention Project grew out of the Dream for Darfur campaign, a 16-month effort designed specifically to press for Beijing to take positive action in the Darfur crisis in the lead-up to the 2008 Olympic Games. Jill and the campaign were profiled in the New York Times Magazine in March 2008.
Jill founded Dream for Darfur in May 2007 after leaving Human Rights First where she was the Director of Public Programs. During her six years at HRF, Jill developed large-scale public advocacy campaigns about Darfur and about US interrogation policy. She also directed the organization's communications department.
Before joining Human Rights First, Jill was a freelance consultant on non-profit communications (1997 to 2000), and the communications director of the Ms. Foundation for Women (1994 to 1996). At the Ms. Foundation, Jill organized Take Our Daughters To Work Day and organized the media and communications initiative for a coalition of US NGO leaders attending the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing.
Jill began her career as a reporter for WAMU, the Washington, DC affiliate of NPR. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in 1990.
February 19: Arielle Freedburg on GLBT (Gay-Lesbian-Bi-Transexual) Issues
Arielle Freedburg will be joined by her partner and her father, as they share their journey together towards acceptance of LGBT issues in their lives. Join us for a very interesting evening!
March 19: Dr. Jay Selman, Chief of Pediatric Neurology at Blythdale Children's Hospital will speak on distributive justice in health care
Jay E. Selman, M.D., a pediatric neurologist and sleep medicine specialist for more than 30 years, is the Chief of Pediatric Neurology at Blythedale Children's Hospital in Valhalla, NY.
Dr. Selman joined Blythedale in 2002 as a consultant in Child Neurology, has been a professor at several major university hospitals and has published articles in numerous medical journals. Currently, he is Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine-Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center. He is also Attending Neurologist at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, NY.
Dr. Selman holds Board Certification from the American Board of Pediatrics; American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology with Special Competence in Child Neurology; and with Added Qualification (sub-Boards) in Clinical Neurophysiology, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Sleep Medicine. His special areas of interest include developmental disorders, autism, traumatic brain injury, headaches and migraines, tics and Tourette Syndrome, and the full range of sleep disorders.
Dr. Selman is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Epilepsy Society, American Academy of Neurology and Movement Disorders Section, Child Neurology Society, and Epilepsy Society of Southern New York. He currently serves on several committees at Northern Westchester Hospital Center.
