Program for Tonight’s Interfaith Service
Friday, June 5
5:30pm via live-stream Congregation B’nai Israel Facebook page.
Organized by the Spartanburg Interfaith Alliance
Hosted by Congregation B’nai Israel
Summons
n Opening Sabbath Song & Welcome
o Rabbi Yossi Liebowitz, Congregation B’nai Israel
n Statement of Purpose
o Dr. James Hailstock, New Day Baptist Church
n Call to Worship (Habakkuk 1:2-4)
o Dr. Araceli Hernandez-Laroche, USC-Upstate & Alianza Spartanburg
A Call To Grief & Action
n Candle Lighting & Shabbat Song
o Dr. Sherry Fohr, Professor of Religious Studies, Converse College & Congregation B’nai Israel
o Rabbi Yossi Liebowitz
n Words of Grief & Action
o Omani Abdullah, Islamic Society of Spartanburg
n Words of Grief & Action
o Dr. Sheila Elliott Hodge, Silver Hill United Methodist Church
n Violin Solo
o Courtney Lebauer, Congregation B’nai Israel
n Torah Message
o Rabbi Yossi Liebowitz
n Kaddish List and Recitation
o Rabbi Yossi Liebowitz
That We May All Be Free
n On Mutual Liberation
o Rev. Scott Neely, Unitarian Universalist Church of Spartanburg
n Prayer for Liberation
o Rev. Dallas Conyers, Macedonia Baptist Church
n Healing Song
o Rabbi Yossi Liebowitz
Sending
n Prayer for Action
o Father Rob Brown, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church
n Charge
o Dr. James Hailstock
n Opening of the Doors of the Ark & Closing Song: “Vayigal (Let Righteousness Roll)”
o Rev. Ned Morris, Episcopal Church of the Advent
o Dr. Ron Robinson, Chaplain, Wofford College
o Rabbi Yossi Liebowitz