Unitarian Universalists for Jewish Awareness

Dear friends, I’m very pleased to invite you to a “meet and greet” with your UUJA Board, in conjunction with General Assembly. This Thursday and Friday, we will be on Zoom during the “caucus” time. You DO NOT have to be attending GA, or registered for GA, to attend!

Your Board would like to hear from you. How are we doing? What would you like to see in the coming year? What are you doing locally? How is the UU movement is doing in promoting Jewish awareness? Have you experienced anti-Semitism within UUism or your congregation?

Please Zoom in at any time between 11 AM and Noon, CENTRAL Daylight Saving Time (so noon in the east, 9 AM Pacific, etc.). Here are the links:

Thursday, June 24, 2021:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ld-ygqDItHNNtsD0oTAWgdDFsPoTcPk27

Friday, June 25, 2021: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdeGpqzsjHtwQwn750j5cVKcGU4zSaXX5

AND, please join us for Friday Shabbat services at 7:30 PM Central time, where The Rev. Deb Hafner will deliver the d’var Torah! The link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArfuiqrDsjEtVUy76fUqafAVaHu0mJRY9a

For all of these events, CLICK NOW to pre-register. We are doing this to avoid Zoom-bombing. We will then send you a pre-registration email so you can log in directly.

I look forward to seeing you, hearing you, and having good conversation!

"The world stands on three things:
On Truth,
On Judgement,
and On Peace;
as it is stated (Zech 8:16) Execute the judgement of truth and peace in your gates."
Commentary:
"Truth - According to Maimonides, truth refers to the two kinds of human perfection: intellectual and ethical.
On Judgement. Maimonides explains judgment in terms of a judicial system, the best institution to maintain order in society. Bartinoro understands judgement as justice - to acquit the innocent and condemn the guilty"
Source - Pirke Avot - A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics.

UUJAers, your Board is planning our next Zoom Shabbat service for the Friday of the UUA General Assembly. Save the date: Friday, June 25, 2021, at 7:30 PM, Central Daylight Saving Time. We will also be holding two general open listening and meet/greet sessions with Board members that Thursday and Friday, at 11 AM CDST, for an hour each. Details and Zoom links forthcoming! We look forward to e-meeting as many of you as possible, and hearing your ideas for what you would like to see UUJA do in the coming year.

A most interesting study!
https://www.pewforum.org/2021/05/11/jewish-americans-in-2020/?utm_source=adaptivemailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rel%20-%2021-05-11%20jewish%20americans%20release&org=982&lvl=100&ite=8450&lea=1825310&ctr=0&par=1&trk=&etype=emailblastcontent&eid=81c59388-da05-4cf8-a877-53b9cfc447d3

Let us remember and celebrate the people who resist fascism in the past and in the present. Their lives, their courage points the way towards liberation, even when they don't survive to see the day. Today, we remember Munich University students, Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, Alexander Schmorell, Christoph Probst, Willi Graf, and their professor, Kurt Huber. #Resist

In case anyone is interested in an online program tonight.