We hope you enjoying a pleasant holiday season and you ushered in the New Year in good health. Writing this newsletter is a constant reminder to me how time passes so quickly and how much need there is in our city, country and world. We hope you will find an interest or passion to devote some time to in the year ahead.
All the best, Marion Pollock Tzedek Newsletter Editor
ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION
Newton Mother’s Out Front is an environmental advocacy organization that provides a number of educational programs in addition to their advocacy work. On October 6 they invite you to an early celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day with the online screening of Inhabitants, a documentary film that follows five Native American Tribes across deserts, coastlines, forests, and prairies as they restore their traditional land management practices. Please see Virtual Documentary Screening: Inhabitants - Mothers out Front
PROTECT ABORTION RIGHTS BY JOINING: Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, the Reform Movement's Every Voice, Every Vote Campaign,Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America andthe Jewish Abortion Access Coalition
Our Jewish values affirm that abortion is health care, and that a pregnant person should be able to decide whether to continue or terminate a pregnancy. Abortion bans and restrictions are an affront to the human dignity Judaism cherishes, as well as a violation of our religious freedom, because they impede our ability to practice fully our faith’s teaching.
Yet, in our country right now, states are trying to severely limit this right, forcing pregnant people to continue pregnancies against their will, or travel to other states, or put their own lives in jeopardy waiting for their health to become endangered before being treated.
Join this Jewish community phone bank effort to protect abortion rights around the country! We first gather as Jewish community with people throughout the country at 5:45 PM (EST), and then enter the phone banks together at 6:00 PM (EST). Kentucky Phone Banking with the Protect Kentucky Access Wednesday, October 12 Wednesday, October 19 Wednesday, October 26 Wednesday, November 2
Michigan Phone Banking with Michigan Reproductive Freedom for All and Detroit Jews for Justice Tuesday, October 11 Tuesday, October 18 Tuesday, October 25 Tuesday, November 1
Help will be needed on October 6th from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM to unload the truck at the Food Pantry located at City Hall. Please contact bruce@ladygrace.com if you are able to help and to receive more information.
