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October 3 | Dinner Begins at 5:30 PM
FREE and open to the community
Both in-person and virtual tickets available
Registration Required
This timely discussion with investigative journalist, Stephen Fried, and local Jewish clergy; Rabbi Rosalin Mandelberg, Rabbi Michael Panitz, Rabbi Ron Koas, Cantor Jennifer Rueben, and Cantor Wendi Fried, will focus on why brain health and mental well-being matter to the Jewish people, and what can be done as a Jewish community to bring these topics out of the shadows.
Dinner and discussion begins at 5:30, discussion to follow.
Presented by the Milton "Mickey" Kramer Scholar-in-Residence Fund of the Congregation Beth El Foundation's Tidewater Together series, in partnership with Jewish Family Service of Tidewater.
Interested in learning more about the important work being done locally to address the mental well-being of our community, what work still needs to be done, and how you can help? Join us for part 2 in this series on October 4 at 7:30 PM. Click HERE to learn more.
Stephen Fried has been a popular lecturer and consultant for faith communities since his 2002 book The New Rabbi. A behind-the-scenes look at the “retail business of religion” set in one of the nation’s largest houses of worship during its dramatic effort to hire a new religious leader. After the book’s success, Fried began being invited to houses of worship to lecture and consult at the beginning of clergy searches and other lay leadership challenges.
In 2015, Fried co-authored, with Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy, A Common Struggle: A Personal Journey through the Past and Future of Mental Illness and Addiction, an immediate bestseller that was featured on 60 Minutes. During an event the co-authors did together at a Philadelphia synagogue, Fried saw in the audience a man he had known as a teenager, because his older brother took his own life on Yom Kippur—an event nobody had spoken of ever since. They connected after the event, and the man agreed to be interviewed for the first time about his brother’s death, and the challenge of faith communities to respond openly and supportively to mental illness and addiction.
Their conversation led to Fried’s September 2016 cover story in The Forward “Why Jews Must Take Mental Illness Out of the Shadows” which challenged faith communities to be more supportive and inclusive of people with mental illness and addiction and their families, and offered best practices and concrete steps (even baby steps) communities could take.
Sunday, October 3, 2021 5:30 PM EDT
Sunday, October 3, 2021 5:30 PM EDT
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Meeting ID: 886 0409 3834
Passcode: 332780