Weekly Brief

Sixth grade Parent/Child Minyan - December 15th
Save the date for the next sixth grade minyan. Please email youth@rinat.org to sign up to help make the minyan, daven, lain, or share a dvar Torah, or for more information.

K-1 Family Kiddush - December 15th
Meet the parents of your children’s friends and enjoy a hot child-friendly kiddush! Thank you to the Bayewitz, Cohn, Hooper, Krohn, Lefkowitz, and Gielchinsky/Loskove families for sponsoring the kiddush. To sponsor email youth@rinat.org

On Shabbat, Dec. 15 at 4:00pm, Cong. Rinat Yisrael will be hosting Judge Rachel Freier who will speak on "My Journey to the Bench".
 
Judge Freier, whose career was highlighted in the recent acclaimed film "93 Queen", campaigned and was elected as a Civil Court judge for the Kings County 5th judicial district in New York State, thereby becoming the first Hasidic Jewish woman to be elected as a civil court judge in New York State and the first Hasidic woman to hold public office in United States history. After her election she was assigned to serve on the Criminal Court in the Kings County 5th judicial district.

The entire community is invited to hear a courageous heroine of our times.

On Shabbat, December 21-22, Cong. Rinat Yisrael Adult Education Program Presents as Scholar in Residence: Prof. Adam Ferziger, Dept. of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University.

Schedule:
Friday night Oneg at 7:30 pm: Female Clergy and Male Space: The Ritualization of the Orthodox Rabbi.
Shabbat Morning Drasha (8:30 and 9:00 services): Jerusalem and Babylon in the 21st Century - The Relationship between Israeli and American Judaisms.
Shabbat After Mincha: Love and Death: Reform Marriage and Reform Burial in Contemporary Halakhah.
Sponsored by Leora and Martin Fineberg in honor and in memory of Leora's mother Miriam Adler,  מרים רודא בת יצחק ו חנה זיסל

To sponsor this or other upcoming adult education programs, please click this link: https://www.rinat.org/form/Adult-Education%20sponsorship.html .