The world feels messy right now. And when it comes to our communal quest for justice, that mess can be paralyzing. It can feel easier to hide in our homes than to look out and ask ourselves what is the change we seek and what will we do to achieve it!
LBT’s MLK Shabbat speaker, PICO California’s Director Joseph McKellar, spoke about the power of acknowledging the brokenness of the world while affirming facing it with his family. We are called by our Prophets, texts and traditions to face the mayhem and tumult of the world together as a community. We do not tolerate injustice and we will not stand idly by while our brothers and sisters suffer. We are urged to welcome the stranger and care for the orphan and widow in our midst. But what can we do to make our world more just?
Messy, Together: Our community conversation hopes to achieve three goals in our effort toward creating a more just world:
You are invited to participate! LBT Members can participate in this communal conversation through small groups or one-to-one conversations. The groups and conversations will be facilitated by members of the Community Organizing Leadership Team (COLT), listed below.
What will we do with this? We will bring LBT’s stories and ideas into conversation with dozens of other synagogues, churches and mosques around LA County through our work with our interfaith organizing partners at LA Voice. This concert of voices will inform and direct our social justice campaigns.
| Debbie Babb Tamara Eskenazi Jackie Freedman Dan Giesberg Jane Herzog Laura Kaplansky Lisa Katz Keren Koretz Charlotte Myers |
Ken Neisser Winifred Neisser Sally Porton Bea Richman Brian Rose Robyn Samuels Tim Shaheen Rick Shaine Jonathan Steier |
Shelly Steier Eric Stockel Maria Suchard Karen Wagener Elaine Waldman Alan Weil Karen Weil Jacob Wirtschafter |