Congregation Ner Shalom

Summer Series!

Congregation Ner Shalom is sponsoring a Summer Series of guest lectures and educational modules, meeting on Zoom Tuesdays at 1 throughout the Summer starting June 30th. These offerings will help us keep our community connection as well as enhance our general knowledge and understandings in this time of COVID-19.

Our topics include Presidential Ethics and the Ethics of the Presidency; Aesthetic Surgery, The Jews, and the Invention of Beauty; Climate Change; Racial Justice; Writing a Jewish Ethical Will; and More! Registration for the whole series is available here.

Meanwhile, we will continue to offer our regular Adult Ed and Torah Study on zoom with the rabbi, and stream our Erev Shabbat, Shabbat Shacharit, and Havdallah services on social media sites. Do not hesitate to email rabbi@nershalomva.org if you have trouble finding access to any of our abundant services and programs!

Ner Shalom houses the only synagogue in Prince William County, Virginia. As such, Ner Shalom serves Jews among the over half a million people in the Prince William community. To support the synagogue and congregation, and its number of outreach activities, contributions are both needed and greatly appreciated. If you would like to support Ner Shalom, you can make a tax-deductible donation on-line at https://www.nershalomva.org/payment.php or by mailing a check to Congregation Ner Shalom, P.O. Box 2085, Woodbridge, VA 22195-2085. Thank you!

Congregation Ner Shalom - Our Home

Rabbi Lizz Goldstein

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We are a congregation that supports a wide range of programs and activities for members of all ages.

We are dedicated to preserving the traditions of the past, pledged to serving the spiritual, cultural, educational and social needs of our congregation and the community in the present, and committed to providing innovative and progressive ideas to meet the challenges of the future.

We are a diverse congregation reaching out to all people and making a conscious effort to make everyone feel comfortable and welcome. We welcome everyone who is interested in participating in the lively, vibrant world of Reform Judaism. Judaism stresses community. Ner Shalom is your Jewish community, as well as your extended family in Prince William County, Virginia.

We STRIVE to build a community based on inclusiveness, where everyone is welcome, regardless of race, age, ability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, a Jew by birth or by choice, to seek religious learning and experiences, life cycle rituals, and spiritual guidance.

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Sat, July 11 2020
19 Tammuz 5780

Upcoming Events

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Saturday ,
JulJuly 11 , 2020

Havdallah Streaming on Instagram and Facebook
Shabbat, Jul 11th 8:00p to 8:15p

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Sunday ,
JulJuly 12 , 2020

Adult Ed: Reform Judaism
Sunday, Jul 12th 1:00p to 2:00p
Join us as we discuss key aspects of Reform Judaism and guided through the CCAR Press book, "A Life of Meaning"
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Tuesday ,
JulJuly 14 , 2020

Presidential Ethics and the Ethics of the Presidency
Tuesday, Jul 14th 1:00p to 2:00p
Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsfuGprjIsG9b7kk_4UiF315sHrGbQbaiu Stuart C. Gilman is a senior partner in the Global Integrity Group and works with governments around the world on issues of governance, integrity and anti-corruption. He retired from diplomatic service with the United Nations in October 2010. Since retirement, he has worked throughout the Middle East, South America and Eastern Europe, including a sixteen-month consultation in Morocco assisting their anti-corruption agency. He was Senior Anti-corruption advisor for UNDP in the Arab region through 2020 and was the senior adviser for Tunisia’s National Anti-corruption Strategy approved by government in December 2016. He has also been a senior adviser for the Serbian and Lebanese anti-corruption commissions. Since retiring, Gilman has had assignments with the Council of Europe, the Organization for Economic and Community Development and the World Bank. Before retiring from the UN, he was seconded to the World Bank as the Deputy Director of the Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative and Senior Advisor on governance and rule of law for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Before this, he was Head of the United Nations Global Programme against Corruption in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Gilman’s forty-five year career includes positions in major universities, government and non-profit organizations. His work has focused on integrity and anticorruption systems in government and the private sector. Dr. Gilman has provided counsel and training for a variety of senior leaders, from corporate chief executive officers to cabinet secretaries and ministers, from heads of anticorruption agencies to judges and prosecutors. In addition to his eleven-year academic career, he was an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown and George Washington Universities. In 1988, he was appointed the first Associate Director for Education at the United States Office of Government Ethics (OGE). Subsequently he served as Special Assistant to the Director of the OGE. He then served Director of Strategic Implementation with the Inspector General’s office of the U.S. Department of Treasury. He left government after being chosen to be the third President of the Ethics Resource Center (ERC), the oldest ethics center in the United States. ERC had five international centers. His leadership at the ERC resulted in close consultation relationships with Lockheed Martin, Merck Pharmaceuticals, Guardsmark, Royal Dutch Shell, American Express and other multinational corporations and governments. Dr. Gilman has been an adviser for state governments and federal agencies, for large corporations and non-profit organizations, as well as multinational organizations – such as the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the Organization of American States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the OECD. Dr. Gilman has been an anti-corruption and integrity adviser for countries as diverse as Egypt, Japan, Myanmar, Morocco, South Africa, Serbia, Tunisia, Argentina, Qatar, Brazil, Turkey, Romania, Lebanon, Italy, Macedonia and the Philippines. He has received a number of awards and has coauthored several books and monographs. In 2018, he received a lifetime achievement award “for a career advancing ethics and integrity in public administration” by the American Society of Public Administration. The third edition of the best selling Ethics Challenge in Public Service, co-authored with Carol Lewis, was published in May 2012. He has published scholarly articles in a number of edited books as well as journals. In 2006, Dr. Gilman was elected to the National Academy of Public Administration in the United States. Dr. Gilman has given speeches and presentations on anti-corruption and ethics at universities, for governments and international forums around the world. He is often quoted in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, the Toronto Star and even Sports Illustrated. He is a graduate of the University of New Orleans, and received his Ph.D. in 1974 from Miami University. He has completed post-doctoral work at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, the University of Virginia and Senior Managers in Government Program at Harvard University. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Friday ,
JulJuly 17 , 2020

Zoom Shabbat led by the Levy Family
Friday, Jul 17th 7:30p to 8:30p

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Saturday ,
JulJuly 18 , 2020

Teen Game Night
Shabbat, Jul 18th 8:00p to 10:00p
JackBox Games over Zoom
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Sunday ,
JulJuly 19 , 2020

Adult Ed: Reform Judaism
Sunday, Jul 19th 1:00p to 2:00p
Join us as we discuss key aspects of Reform Judaism and guided through the CCAR Press book, "A Life of Meaning"
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Tuesday ,
JulJuly 21 , 2020

Racial Justice
Tuesday, Jul 21st 1:00p to 2:00p
Come and Learn! Kelly Whitehead is a rabbinical student at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and a long-time leader in Jewish spaces. She is also a Jewish woman of color and will be speaking to us about race in Jewish spaces. Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwtf-irrD8tGNwFuxzJRsyLyigoQcxoQFdl After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
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Friday ,
JulJuly 24 , 2020

Shabbat service led by Ben Mergler streaming on YouTube and Facebook
Friday, Jul 24th 7:30p to 8:30p

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Saturday ,
JulJuly 25 , 2020

Havdallah Streaming on Instagram and Facebook
Shabbat, Jul 25th 8:00p to 8:15p

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Sunday ,
JulJuly 26 , 2020

Adult Ed: Reform Judaism
Sunday, Jul 26th 1:00p to 2:00p
Join us as we discuss key aspects of Reform Judaism and guided through the CCAR Press book, "A Life of Meaning"
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