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LimmudFest 2019

The Festival of All Things Jewish
Join us in celebrating our 10th anniversary and
honoring our Founder, Steffi Aronson Karp.
Sunday November 17, 2019
from 9:00 am to 5:30 PM
at the 384 Harvard St. Campus in Brookline

9:00 AM - Rabbi Plumb will be teaching a session on

"From Silence to Speech: Mussar on Shticka/Silence"
If you are shy and wish you could speak up more, or you interrupt people to make your point, this session is for you. Using Mussar middah of Shtickah/Silence, we will look at the role words and silence play in our lives.  We will investigate how and when we speak in person, online and even what we "say" with our body language. No prior knowledge needed.

For more information and to register:
https://limmudboston.org/limmudfest-2019/

Join CMT in partnership with Action for Post-Soviet Jewry and Center Makor for this three-part event

This photographic exhibit will be on display from Sunday, Nov 17th to Thursday, Nov 21st in the Mishkan lounge. The Jewish Experience: Pogrom is the first-ever photographic and video exhibit, helping to bring these events to light.  This traveling exhibit features 45 rare, archival photographs together with a five-minute, looping video overview of this time period.  The photographs, from the rare book Jewish Pogroms 1918-1921 (Moscow, 1926), are displayed in illuminated kiosks and document the anti-Jewish violence in Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. https://www.thejewishexperience.org/

CMT LOUNGE NIGHT

Join us on Wednesday, November 20th, for a discussion with LeeAnn Dance,
co-producer/director of “My Dear Children” and Diane Covert artist and curator of the Jewish experience.
LeeAnn will share her story of how she was came to this story and Diane will share her story about how she came to the photography. 
This will be a relevant and interesting discussion whether or not you viewed the film.

Celebrating Inclusion

Looking for CMT community members interested in joining us at the Ruderman Synagauge Initiative Programs (RSIP) Dinner.

CMT is recieving a grant this year from the Ruderman Family Foundation and is part of the RSIP cohort.  We have a few spots left at our table.

Please email debbie@mishkantefila.org if you are interested or have any questions. RSVP's are due by Nov 30th. 

Thursday, December 5 | 6:00-9:00 p.m.
Temple Emanuel
385 Ward Street, Newton

Featuring Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson 

We are thrilled to welcome prominent scholar Rabbi Dr. Bradley Shavit Artson as our keynote speaker. He will speak on "My House Shall Be A House For All People." Weaving together Jewish wisdom and life experience as the father of a son with autism, Rabbi Artson will explore how we might create a world that is closer to paradise — a place that welcomes everyone as they are. Rabbi Artson holds the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean's Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and is Vice President of American Jewish University in Los Angeles.

We will also hear from Sharon Shapiro, Trustee of the Ruderman Family Foundation.

This year, we will present four exciting concurrent workshops for our RSIP Partners, Affiliates, and alumni.
Strategies for Synagogue Inclusion — led by Rebecca Rednor and Mia Hyman of Gateways: Access to Jewish Education 
 Intended for lay leaders, this presentation offers dozens of strategies to make your synagogue environment more inclusive. Facilitators offer ideas for activities and projects to help acclimate and engage children and adults with disabilities and learning differences. 
  
Autism 101: What Congregations Can Do to Be More Inclusive — led by Sandy Gold of Gateways: Access to Jewish Education 
 What does it mean to have an autism spectrum diagnosis? What can synagogues do to build awareness of autism to make our communities more welcoming of all?
 
Mental Health, Happiness, and Strategies for Resilience — led by Daniel Jackson, Professor of Computer Science at MIT, photographer and author of Portraits of Resilience
 After MIT experienced numerous student and faculty suicides, Daniel Jackson began a project to photograph and interview members of the community, to learn about the challenges they were facing and their strategies for dealing with them. In this talk, he’ll share some of the insights that he received from these remarkable people. He will apply the insights he learned to how we can make our synagogues more welcoming.
 
Youth on the Margins — led by Idit Klein, President and CEO of Keshet; Rabbi Suzie Jacobson of Temple Israel; and Paul Hyry-Dermith, Ed.D., Director of the Brookline Center for Community Mental Health’s Bridge for Resilient Youth in Transition (BRYT) program.

 If we want our synagogues and communities to be truly inclusive, we need to know how to support all young people. How do we identify youths who are struggling, and what do we do to help? This workshop will include perspectives on gender, sexuality, and mental health. Participants will have the chance to hear about strategies and approaches that they may want to adapt/adopt in their own synagogues and communities.