Rabbi Saul J. Berman, Professor of Jewish Law at Yeshiva University and at Columbia University Law School, was arrested in Civil Rights demonstrations in Selma, AL in 1965 and will share with us a Biblical perspective on a Citizen's Duty to Vote and Duty to Protest in a democratic society.
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Need a break from finals? Need a watercooler conversation starter? Need a movie for the watch party?
Try "Minding the Gap" with the Advocacy Center of Tompkins County, Title IX, and the Center for IDEAS. In this award-winning documentary three young men bond across racial lines to escape volatile families in their Rust Belt hometown. Ten years later, while facing adult responsibilities, unsettling revelations force them to reckon with their parents and with each other.
Join us as we honor the amazing accomplishments of our graduating seniors. Light refreshments will be served prior. Please RSVP on our Engage event page.
Guest Lecturer, Rabbi Saul Berman, will be sharing his motivations to join civil disobedience and march in Selma in 1965. Join the conversation prior to our Interfaith dinner. Free and open to the public.
An evening of good food and community with members of the Lansing Community and Interfaith Communities of Greater Ithaca. Vegetarian, Kosher, and Halal options will be available. Free and open to the public.
We begin the week in reflection. Join us for brunch as the MLK First-Year Scholars present on their fall Civil Rights trip. Provost Cornish will lead our community dialogue centered on the guiding quote for the week, "A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal." Free and open to the public.
Join Hillel for a special non-denominational Shabbat service celebrating the the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As we pray together we reaffirm our commitment to his vision of social and racial justice rooted in a spiritual tradition. Free and open to the public.