Honors
The Teen Initiative Community Convening on Racial Justice, sponsored by S.F.-based Jewish LearningWorks, took place on April 21 and included the presentation of awards to three Bay Area Jewish youth professionals.
Devra Aarons received the 2020 Award for Excellence in Jewish Youth Education and Engagement,
Rick Concoff received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award in Jewish Youth Education and Engagement, and
Zephira Derblich-Milea, youth program manager at Shalom Bayit, was awarded the 2021 Award for Excellence in Jewish Youth Education and Engagement.
Analucia Lopezrevoredo, founder and executive director of Jewtina y Co. and the Shamash project director at Bend the Arc, spoke to attendees about “getting started along the long road to racial equity.”
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Rev. Raphael Warnock
Some congregants of The Temple, the synagogue that has hosted the annual event for more than a decade, assumed that a spike in interest had crashed the website. After all, Warnock’s recent election – who is the pastor at Martin Luther King’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta – helped give the Democratic Party control of the United States Senate.
But the broadcast’s disruption was caused by people with malicious intent.
Kent Alexander, the synagogue’s president, emailed the congregation on Saturday with the news. “To the many of you who tried to log on through the Temple website but could not, and missed the service, we apologize and want to offer an explanation.”