Embracing Justice: An Alternative Yom Ha'Atzmaut Celebration
60 Rabbis, Cantors and Rabbinical Students Celebrate Israel at 60! (See partial list of participants below.) Please join us and invite your friends to join us on Thursday, May 8, 1:45 P.M. at Merchants' Gate in Central Park, New York City (Central Park South and West at Columbus Circle) for Embracing Justice: An Alternative Yom Ha'Atzmaut Celebration. We will: plant two trees for justice, pray and sing for justice in a special Minkha (afternoon) Service with Rabbi Simkha Weintraub and Debbie Friedman, renowned singer-songwriter, and learn for justice with Rabbi Gordon Tucker teaching from RHR's Masekhet Ha'Atzmaut.
Participating Rabbis, Cantors and Rabbinical Students:
Steven Altarescu
Rabbi Julia Andelman
Rabbi Andrew Bachman
Rabbi Marci Bellows
Cantor David Berger
Cantor Suzanne Bernstein
Rachael Bregman
Rabbi Lester Bronstein
Rabbi Carie Carter
Rabbi Ayelet Cohen
Rabbi Scott Corngold
Rabbi Faith Joy Dantowitz
Rabbi Andrew Davids
Ben Davis
Rabbi James Diamond
Rabbi Stephanie Dickstein
Rabbi Michael Feinberg
Rabbi Marla Feldman
Rabbi Michael Friedman
Jason Gitlin
Rabbi Henry Glazer
Rabbi Linda Goodman
Rabbi David Greenstein
Rabbi Joshua Gutoff
Rabbi Andrew Hahn
Benjamin Herman
Rabbi David Ingber
Rabbi Rebecca Joseph
Rachel Kahn-Troster
Molly Kane
Rabbi Laurie Katz Braun
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
Rabbi Manes Kogan
Rabbi Chava Koster
Rabbi Nathan Landman
Rabbi Adina Lewittes
Rabbi Valerie Lieber
Rabbi Serge Lippe
Rabbi Ellen Lippmann
Rabbi Jeffrey Marker
Rabbi Rolando Matalon
Rabbi Rachel Mikva
Rabbi Joshua Minkin
Rabbi Jay Moses
Rabbi David Nelson
Rabbi Susan Oren
Rabbi Yael Ridberg
Rabbi Janet Roberts
Bruce Rosen
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn
Rabbi Michael Rothbaum
Stephanie Ruskay
Rabbi Joanna Samuels
Rabbi Fred Schwalb
Rabbi Israel Stein
Melissa Stollman
Rabbi Joshua Strom
Rabbi Michael Tayvah
Rabbi Lawrence Troster
Rabbi Gordon Tucker
Rabbi Brian Walt
Aaron Weininger
Rabbi Simkha Weintraub
Rabbi Samuel Weintraub
Rachel Weiss
Rabbi Nancy Wiener