Tag: Community Engagement

Siona Benjamin has been making intricately detailed, transnational art with a feminist, Jewish, and political bent for almost two decades. Her distinct and unusual heritage as a descendant of the Bene Israel Jewish community of India informs her artistic perspective. Immigration, gender, the concept of “home”, and the role of art in social change are explored through vibrantly hued paintings.

All in-person events below will take place at Mayerson Hall, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH. Livestream links will be provided upon registration.

Enjoy this final day to self-tour the exhibition (in-person only).

Join Skirball Museum curatorial consultant Abby Schwartz for a guided tour of the exhibition (in-person only).

Registration required at THIS LINK

Jewish Family Service’s 80th Annual Meeting
7:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 20, 2023
Amberley Room of The Mayerson JCC
8485 Ridge Ave, Cincinnati Ohio 45236
We have much to celebrate this year. For eight decades, JFS has been an important and integral part of our community. And we’ve evolved over the years to address ever-changing needs. Today we serve people throughout our diverse community—with professionalism and expertise.
As we like to say, JFS is here for everyone—whether it was helping Holocaust survivors and their families immigrate and assimilate in the 1950s, or guiding Cincinnati’s struggling youth to high-quality mental health resources today in the 2020s—we believe that everyone deserves to live with dignity, security, and hope.
Keynote Speaker Tricia Stern
In addition to celebrating the historical and current accomplishments of JFS, we will welcome our keynote speaker, Tricia Stern, Vice President of Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services at the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies (NJHSA). Tricia is an expert on ways to meet the significantly increasing mental health needs of youth, young adults, and parents.
The annual meeting is also a great opportunity to acknowledge and honor our donors, lay leaders, and volunteers. From 1943 to today, we have consistently benefited from your extraordinary generosity and stewardship. With Jewish Family Service’s 80th Annual Meeting, we hope in some small way to demonstrate our sincere appreciation.

Over the past two years, the No Death Penalty Ohio Coalition built a movement that saw historic legislative progress. Though the legislation that would end Ohio’s death penalty did not pass, we are determined to keep pushing for repeal. It’s a new session and new bills ending Ohio’s death penalty are poised for introduction. Join us at a statewide grassroots meeting to learn about the campaign, ignite or reignite the spark for abolishing the death penalty, and to learn how you can play a role.

We need people like you to join the bipartisan movement to end the death penalty.

Anti-Death Penalty Statewide Grassroots Meeting
Monday, April 17
6:00 – 7:00 PM
Via Zoom – Register here

The World Interfaith Network is hosting its 7th annual Interfaith Awareness Week, with virtual events happening each day.  This is a great way to build connections, learn more about interfaith work and religious traditions.

You can see the full program and learn how to participate HERE.

Shoulder to Shoulder is a national multifaith coalition of religious denominations and faith-based organizations who are committed to ending anti-Muslim hatred, discrimination, and violence in the United States of America.

For several years, throughout the holy month of Ramadan, Shoulder to Shoulder has organized public iftars, evening meals to break the Ramadan fast. These meals are open to the public and provide opportunities to build community across faith traditions and with muslim friends and neighbors.

To learn more about this initiative, register to host an iftar, or learn where you can join an iftar in person or virtually, visit this website.

The FCGG Education/Lifestyles Working Group
Presents
The April 2023 EcoChallenge

Join our team, FCGG for Earth Month 2023, and compete with teams from around the world in this fun, free, educational, and interactive game.

April 1st through April 30th, 2023

You choose your level of involvement from simple one-time actions to daily activities. Each action earns points for our team. You can “chat” with teammates and give high-fives for great ideas. Invite friends, family, and members of your faith community to join our FCGG team.

The April Ecochallenge is designed to introduce you to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity. Ecochallenge transformed the 17 SDGs into 5 categories of daily and one-time actions that everyone can make. With easy-to-understand instructions and information on the Ecochallenge website, you will learn about the local and global benefits of each action. Our team captain, Becca Desai, at bfdesai@aol.com/ is here to assist you if you have questions.

Discussion facilitated by Deborah Jordan

Thursday, March 30th
7:30pm to 8:30pm

Live on Zoom: Register Here

Book:
Food from the Radical Center:
Healing Our Land and Communities
by Gary Nabhan

“In Food from the Radical Center (2018), Gary Nabhan tells the stories of diverse communities who are getting their hands dirty and bringing back North America’s unique fare: bison, sturgeon, camas lilies, ancient grains, turkeys, and more. These efforts have united people from the left and right, rural and urban, faith-based and science-based, in game-changing collaborations. Their successes are extraordinary by any measure, whether economic, ecological, or social.” quoted from Amazon.com.

Nabhan is an Agricultural Ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the interaction of biodiversity and cultural diversity of the arid binational Southwest. A first generation Lebanese-American raised in Gary, IN., he is considered a pioneer in the local food movement.

There is a Cincinnati Public Library copy. It can be ordered from Island Press, the leading publisher on environmental issues in the U.S., for $30. There are copies available on Better World Books (a B corp) and Abe Books (a subsidiary of Amazon) for about $10.