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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.” ....
Atlanta Jewish Times Can Biden’s Administration Bridge the Political Divide? Based on a random sampling of opinion, the 46th president may find it challenging to satisfy a politically divided country. By Dave Schechter January 21, 2021, 1:45 pm Edit 13 shares Dave Schechter is a veteran journalist whose career includes writing and producing reports from Israel and elsewhere in the Middle East. US President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential inauguration in Washington. Reuters Biden arrives at the White House for the first time as president. Evan Vucci/AP Eli Sperling would like to see Biden implement the ideals he voiced in a 2010 speech at Tel Aviv University. ....
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Image by Getty 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.” ....