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Rabbi Lizz Goldstein

ואהבת לרעך כמוך

You Shall Love Your Neighbor as Yourself.

(Leviticus 19:18)

Elizabeth (Lizz) Goldstein is a native of Branford, CT, in New Haven county. She first felt called to the rabbinate in 2004 as a participant of the URJ Kutz Camp (z"l). She completed her undergraduate studies in 2010 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA with a concentration in genocide studies. She received her ordination from the Academy of Jewish Religion in 2016.

Rabbi Lizz has been involved in many Tikkun Olam projects, was a Global Justice Fellow with American Jewish World Service, and is a member of T'ruah: the Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. She is dedicated to a career of drawing from Jewish history and values to work toward social justice, and is happy to serve the community here at Ner Shalom!

Sat, July 11 2020
19 Tammuz 5780

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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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