Pride Kick-Off Brunch

Kick off Pride Month with a potluck brunch sponsored by JRC’s LGBTQ+ Committee. Connect with old friends and make some new ones!  Come nosh with us and shmooze with Rabbi Deborah Waxman, the first woman and the first lesbian rabbi to head a Jewish movement and seminary!

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Sign up to bring a vegetarian, nut-free dish for the potluck.

Questions? Email Alex Silets.

Our Scholar-In-Residence Weekend with Rabbi Deborah includes:

Friday, June 5, 7:00 pm: Rabbi Deborah joins Lakefront Shabbat to give our D’var Torah and will present JRC member Jonathan Markowitz with the Reconstructing Judaism President’s Award

Saturday, June 6, 10:00 am: Rabbi Deborah will join JRC’s Multi-Access Lay Led Minyan service and will lead an interactive D’var Torah Discussion on Parshat Beha’alotcha

Saturday, June 6, 12:30 pm: Lunch and Learn with Rabbi Deborah: Dancing with Particularism and Universalism in Jewish Peoplehood

Sunday, June 7, 10:00 am: Rabbi Deborah joins our Pride Kickoff Brunch

Rabbi Deborah Waxman Ph.D. is the first woman Rabbi to head a Jewish congregational union and a Jewish seminary, Rabbi Deborah has served as president and chief executive officer of Reconstructing Judaism since 2014. Since then, she has drawn on her training as a rabbi and historian to be the Reconstructionist movement’s leading voice in the public square. Waxman is a cum laude graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University, and was ordained by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. She earned a Ph.D. in American Jewish history from Temple University. In August, she will conclude her tenure with Reconstructing Judaism after 12 years of leadership.