Choosing Judaism: 36 Stories
02/24/2021 12:46:46 PM
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This Sunday, our adult ed time will be devoted to hearing from Bradley Caro Cook and Cameron Vanore about the book Choosing Judaism: 36 Stories. We also hope to incorporate opportunity for Ner Shalom members who are Jews by Choice to share their stories about journeying into and through Judaism.
A bit about our presenters:
Bradley Caro Cook, Ed.D. was born in Atlanta Georgia, where he lived until moving to Israel in 2012. In 2015 Bradley moved back to the US. Bradley is where he is today due to his life-long perseverance as an underdog. Being an individual with disabilities, he was not expected to graduate from high school or college. Now with his doctorate in education, he serves as a bridge builder and Jewish innovator. He dedicates his life to repairing social and religious injustices in the world, building inclusive communities, serving those with disabilities, empowering and advancing those who are disconnected, underserved, or unjustly relegated to the fringes of normative society, and engaging individuals with the beauty of Jewish wisdom and community.
In addition to his innovative work as director and co-founder of Career Up Now and his educational mentorship, he is the editor of the book Choosing Judaism: 36 Stories, a collection of inspiring personal essays on what it means to choose to be and be chosen as a member of the Jewish people.
Cameron Vanore is one such essayist and chosen member of the tribe. She a teacher here in Northern Virginia, and her home congregation is Kol Ami, a Reconstructionist community. She also attends a Jewish meditation group through Temple Rodef Shalom, a Reform congregation. Disability awareness and inclusion is an important cause to her, and she volunteers for the Children’s Tumor Foundation, which is dedicated to finding a cure for NF (neurofibromatosis). She loves reading, creative writing, rock collecting, taking walks in the woods, and spending time with her husband and their spoiled rotten cat, Vinny.
We are so excited to hear from these two wonderful guest speakers about the book, choosing Judaism, and being members of the Jewish community!
Sat, May 28 2022
27 Iyyar 5782
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Our next meeting will be June 1 at 10:30 on Zoom to discuss the book, The Lost Shtetl by Max Gross. What if there was a town that history missed? For decades, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation, virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, its residents enjoyed remarkable peace. It missed out on cars, and electricity, and the internet, and indoor plumbing. But when a marriage dispute spins out of control, the whole town comes crashing into the twenty-first century. Pesha Lindauer, who has just suffered an ugly, acrimonious divorce, suddenly disappears. A day later, her husband goes after her, setting off a panic among the town elders. They send a woefully unprepared outcast named Yankel Lewinkopf out into the wider world to alert the Polish authorities. Venturing beyond the remote safety of Kreskol, Yankel is confronted by the beauty and the ravages of the modern-day outside world – and his reception is met with a confusing mix of disbelief, condescension, and unexpected kindness. When the truth eventually surfaces, his story and the existence of Kreskol make headlines nationwide. Returning Yankel to Kreskol, the Polish government plans to reintegrate the town that time forgot. Yet in doing so, the devious origins of its disappearance come to the light. And what has become of the mystery of Pesha and her former husband? Divided between those embracing change and those clinging to its old world ways, the people of Kreskol will have to find a way to come together . . . or risk their village disappearing for good. -
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