Friday Night Service Info
Please join us for service Friday night, September 15 with refreshments at 5:30 followed by Kabbalat Shabbat Service at 6:00. Refreshments include not only wine and cheese but lots of extras. Hope to see you!
Please join us for service Friday night, September 15 with refreshments at 5:30 followed by Kabbalat Shabbat Service at 6:00. Refreshments include not only wine and cheese but lots of extras. Hope to see you!
Pilgrimage Of Peoples
The Pilgrimage of Peoples’ Committee is well on its way to organizing a trip to the Holocaust Museum, the African American Museum, and possibly the Native American Museum in Washington, DC. We are limited in space so if you are interested, contact the Rabbi about this trip coming up in April.
Central United Methodist Church as we welcome
Former Congressman, Bob Inglis for a talk on
Climate Change in America Monday, September 18 at 6:00 pm
Creation Care & a Climate Solution That Could Bring America Together
About Bob Inglis:
Bob Inglis – Executive Director republicEn.org
Bob Inglis was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1992, having never run for office before. He represented Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, from 1993-1998, unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings in 1998, and then returned to the practice of commercial real estate law in Greenville, S.C. In 2004, he was reelected to Congress and served until losing re-election in the South Carolina Republican primary of 2010.
In 2011, Inglis went full-time into promoting free enterprise action on climate change and launched the Energy and Enterprise Initiative (“E&EI”) at George Mason University in July 2012. E&EI is a 501(c)(3), tax-exempt, educational outreach that lives to demonstrate the power of accountable free enterprise. E&EI believes that climate change can be solved by eliminating all subsidies, including the implicit subsidy of the lack of accountability for emissions. By creating a level playing field in which all costs are transparently “in” on all fuels, E&EI believes that the free enterprise system will deliver innovation faster than government regulations could ever imagine. E&EI supports an online community of energy optimists and climate realists at republicEn.org. You can say you’re “En” on free enterprise solutions to climate change at republicEn.org.
For his work on climate change Inglis was given the 2015 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award. He appears in the film “Merchants of Doubt” and in the Showtime series “YEARS of Living Dangerously” (episodes 3 and 4), and he spoke at TEDxJacksonville. Inglis was a Resident Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics in 2011, a Visiting Energy Fellow at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment in 2012, and a Resident Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics in 2014.
Inglis grew up in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, went to Duke University for college, met and married his college sweetheart, graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law and practiced commercial real estate law in Greenville, S.C., before and between his years in Congress. Bob and Mary Anne Inglis have five children (a son, 30, and four daughters, 27, 25, 21 and 19). They live on a small farm in northern Greenville County, South Carolina.
Congressional ratings:
93 American Conservative Union
100% Christian Coalition
100% National Right to Life
“A” with the National Rifle Association 0 with Americans for Democratic Action 23 with the AFL-CIO
There is a temporary, part time position open for approximately 15 hours per week. Primary responsibilies will be designing and executing a comprehensive marketing, membership, and communications strategy.
Position will assist in the facilita on and coordina on of events and ac vi es for the congrega on. These may include religious celebrations, outreach, membership, adult, and youth & family programs. Position will assist the Rabbi and Board with programming ideas and bring ideas to fruition, reporting to the Rabbi and a Temple Board member.
Qualifications:
• Significant knowledge of Jewish culture & holidays required.
• Demonstrated skills and knowledge in the design and execution of marketing and communications activities.
• Experience in the design of print materials.
• Strong oral and wri en communications skills.
• Willingness to work a fexible schedule with minimum supervision including weeknights and weekends when needed. Working Friday nights and Sundays may be required due to Temple programs that occur on those days.
• Excep onal interpersonal skills.
• Computer Proficiency: comfortable using Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
If interested in this posi on, please submit your resume to Sandy Gordin via email at jackandjill1931@gmail.com.
We have an empty food barrel that needs filling. Please bring 1 nonperishable item when you visit the temple for donation. There are many in our community who need our help.
We had a good turnout for our kick- off to the bake sale November 2. As I have said before, this is our 50th year, and we want to make it the best ever. We have already started our baking and will continue through the next few months.
Teresa Harrison will be calling you about helping out. Please think about helping by either providing something for the sale, participating in the community bakings at the temple, set up the day before the sale, working the day of the sale, or making a donation to help offset our costs. We hope you will consider these options, as it is not only work, but a fun social time.
The next meeting will be on Sunday, September 17 at 12:00 noon in the Sunday School.
A sweet and Happy New Year to all. Cheryl August
We are planning on attending the Spartanburg Little Theater performance of “Legally Blonde” at the Chapman Cultural Center on Sunday, September 17 at 3:00 pm. If we can get a minimum of 10 people to purchase tickets, we can get a group cost of $27 per person. If you are interested in joining us, give Marilyn Litoff a call at 529-0204 so she can reserve the tickets for us. We think this would be a pleasant way to spend a Sunday afternoon together and share a laugh or two.
We would like to remind everyone about the food collection barrel and also the toiletry collection basket located at the Temple. There are so many forms of tzedakah to choose from, and this time of the year it is especially appropriate to remember those in need.
Our Hadassah chapter would like to wish everyone a Sweet and Happy New Year 5778.
See you around the Temple
Nancy Rosenberg
Please contact Jan at the Temple by the end of this week if you wish to remember your loved one in the Yizkor book. Jan needs to start working on it very soon.
Sincerely,
Sandy Gordin
A brief bio on Deborah E. Lipstadt, Ph.D.
Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian, best known as the author of the books Denying the Holocaust (1993), History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier (2005) and The Eichmann Trial (2011). She is currently the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Georgia, United States.[1]
Lipstadt was a consultant to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 1994 she was appointed by Bill Clinton to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, serving two terms
David Irving libel suit
On September 5, 1996, Holocaust denier David Irving sued Lipstadt and her publisher Penguin Books for libel in an English court for characterizing some of his writings and public statements as Holocaust denial in her book Denying the Holocaust. Lipstadt’s legal defense team was led by Anthony Julius of Mishcon de Reya while Penguin’s was led by Kevin Bays and Mark Bateman of Davenport Lyons. Both defendants instructed Richard Rampton QC while Penguin also instructed Heather Rogers as junior counsel. The expert witnesses for the defense included Cambridge historian Richard J. Evans, Christopher Browning, Robert Jan van Pelt, and Peter Longerich.
Although English libel law places the burden of proof on the defendant rather than the plaintiff, Lipstadt and Penguin won the case using the justification defense, namely by demonstrating in court that Lipstadt’s accusations against Irving were substantially true and therefore not libelous. The case was argued as a bench trial before Mr. Justice Gray, who produced a written judgment 334 pages long detailing Irving’s systematic distortion of the historical record of World War II. The Times (April 14, 2000, p. 23) said of Lipstadt’s victory, “History has had its day in court and scored a crushing victory.
Would anyone like to go with Rabbi Liebowitz to hear this lecture on Sunday, September 10? We will leave the temple around 4:00.