JCRC-NY Annual Meeting took place on June 24th. It featured a conversation with New York Police Department Commissioner Dermot Shea led by JCRC-NY’s Executive Vice President and CEO Michael S. Miller and Jewish Week Editor-in-Chief Andrew Silow-Carroll. Topics included in the wide-ranging discussion were the recent protests and riots, police recruitment, oversight, and reform, criminal justice reform, the COVID-19 pandemic and its social and economic repercussions, and his vision for the NYPD.
Click HERE for excerpt from Andew Silow-Carroll’s weekly newsletter in The Jewish Week
At the meeting, JCRC-NY President Cheryl Fishbein was elected for the second of three one year terms, new Officers were announced, and new Board Members were elected. All terms begin July 1st.
Current Vice Presidents Ester Fuchs and Jonathan Greenspun will be joined by Craig Unterberg and current Secretary Gene Rachmansky.
Current Board Member Robyn Polansky Morrison will be the new Secretary
New to the Board of Directors are: Sanford (Sandy) Antignas, Camille Dunst, David Fine, Eric Rechtschaffen, and Anna Propp Riesenberg.
Returning to the Board of Directors are the following alumni: Abraham Biderman, Suzanne Davidowitz, Jay Hershenson, Bradley Korn, Jeffrey Levine, and Michael Lustig.
In addition, we thank former Vice President Marc Wolf, who resigned from the Board to become JCRC-NY’s Chief Development Officer, term-limited Vice President Michael Lustig, and Board Members Gary Jacob, Michael Nussbaum, Shelley Lieff Parker, Marcella Rosen, Irving Rotter, Brian Schreiber, and Marian Stoltz-Loike for their dedicated service.
As we mourn for George Floyd and the many other victims of racism and
hate in America, JCRC-NY, in solidarity with our African-American
sisters and brothers and all communities of color, has decided to
postpone the annual Celebrate Israel Parade.
Recognizing and memorializing the historic moment
in which we are living, JCRC-NY convened a virtual Space of Healing and Listening on Sunday, June 7th.
This gathering provided an opportunity for Jews and non-Jews
alike to hear messages from prominent African-American community
leaders in New York, including:
Jennifer Jones Austin, CEO, Federation of Protestant Welfare
Associations
Tamara Fish, Co-Founder, Khazbar, Former President, Jewish
Multiracial Network
Rev. Charles O. Galbreath, Senior Pastor,Clarendon Road Church
Congressman Gregory Meeks, 5th District, NY
Letitia James, New York State Attorney General
Samuel M. Pierre, MPA, Chief of Staff to New York City Council Member
Farah Louis
We hope this gathering will inspire us to heed the call to
end the scourge of racism and all forms of bigotry in America.
April 29, 2020: The Women in Faith Fellowship, a program of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, in partnership with The New York Board of Rabbis, hosted, over Zoom, “Making Masks and Unmasking Ourselves” to connect and protect the communities we share. In the time of social distancing, over 45 men and women from various streams of Christianity, Judaism and Islam made needed masks and unmasked the stereotypes we have of the other. The gathering provided a unique opportunity to engage in dialogue, exploring how their faith and the faith of the other are addressing the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on our lives. In the words of one of the participants, “I know what my community is doing but to hear it multiplied through so many other communities was really inspiring.”
WOMEN IN FAITH brings together women of different faiths and spiritual practices to discover commonalities and honor differences, building deep and sustained connections across cultures, ages, professions and social strata. Through the fellowship, participants come to understand each other and the role of faith in their lives, and hone skills for listening generously with open curiosity and speaking in ways that honor the inherent dignity of others, creating positive changes in our communities.
