Rabbi's Letters

 
Dear Friends,

This Sunday we will join with nine other synagogues nationally to hear Bari Weiss talk about ‘Cancel Culture through a Jewish Lens’.

Bari Weiss is perhaps the leading lecturer in our American Jewish communities.

She headlined the Conservative movement’s biennial conference in 2019 that I attended and has spoken (and headlined) at countless federations, conferences, and synagogues.

After the Pittsburgh attacks, she became one of the most sought after voices nationally on anti-Semitism and published a book in 2019 on ‘How to Fight Anti-Semitism’.

Since quitting the New York Times last summer where she was an op-ed writer, with a very public rebuke of the paper’s editorial team for creating a culture where “truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else”, she has been a prominent critic of cancel culture.

For a preview of her work, link to a recent article to a recent article, and here is a link to a radio show where she was interviewed.

Ms. Weiss speaks of two illiberal cultures of censorship, on the right and the left, “swallowing up the country."

This will be a unique opportunity to hear an interesting and at times - controversial – public intellectual.

I will have the honor of moderating the conversation on behalf of the consortium of synagogues.

I am grateful to the Geldner family for their generous sponsorship of this event.

Below is a flyer with the registration link embedded, click on it to register.

Sincerely,
Rabbi Adir Glick