Finding Freedom Together - Session 2
Second in a five-part series - this week - unpredictability as an essential aspect of freedom.
Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich facilitate in-person and Zoom discussions, also live on FB, about what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American thinkers.
Finding Freedom Together - Session 3
Third in a five-part series - this week - mobility as an essential aspect of freedom.
Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich facilitate in-person and Zoom discussions, also live on FB, about what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American thinkers.
Finding Freedom Together - Session 4
Fourth in a five-part series - this week - factuality as an essential aspect of freedom.
Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich facilitate in-person and Zoom discussions, also live on FB, about what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American thinkers.
Finding Freedom Together - Session 5
Fifth in a five-part series - this week - solidarity as an essential aspect of freedom, and government as a way to pursue it.
Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich facilitate in-person and Zoom discussions, also live on FB, about what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American thinkers.
Finding Freedom Together - Session 1
Discuss what it means to be "free to" instead of "free from" using Timothy Snyder's insights from "On Freedom" paired with African American thinkers.
Source text:
On Freedom, by Timothy Snyder
For text packets email: rabbijonathan@opendoorjudaism.org
Can be attended via Zoom as well - Zoom link here.
Accomplices for Justice - Take 18
Living with more soul, speaking in good faith, and more.
This week, we look at Mary Anne Franks', "Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment".
Let's collaborate in thwarting the historical efforts to prevent American from being a nation with a government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
Accomplices for Justice - Take 17
Living with soul, doing better, and liberalism, through the lens of Adam Gopnik’s “A Thousand Small Sanities: the Moral Adventure of Liberalism”.
Here’s the Zoom link.
Here’s the Facebook Event Link.
Accomplices for Justice - Take 14
Honest, bold, and value-driven conversations about working towards justice in a society structured by predatory capitalism, anti-black racism, anti-indigenous genocide, and misogynist patriarchy.
This week, we look at VP Kamala Harris' nomination - what are its impacts on patriarchy, misogyny, and gender in America, especially among African Americans?
Dr. Gabrie'l J. Atchison joins us and brings her expertise and wisdom in these areas.
Connect to Facebook event here
Connect to Zoom meeting here
Accomplices for Justice - Take 12
Rev. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich look at the often ignored history that continues to underpin racism and inequality in American through the lens of the period of American Reconstruction and Dr. Manisha Sinha’s seminal work: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.
Join us in person at the TR Site for the tour at 11:30 AM, and the discussion at 1:00 PM.
Please RSVP to rabbijonathan@opendoorjudaism.org
We will also be live on Zoom and Facebook.
Accomplices for Justice - Take Eleven
Addressing racial housing inequities - the real histories and taking real action - looking at the books The Color of Law and Just Action, by Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein.
Accomplices for Justice - Take Ten
Rev. Dr. Wylie Hughes and Rabbi Jonathan Freirich look at problems of wealth disparities and work on solutions inspired by Dorothy Brown’s landmark work, The Whiteness of Wealth.
Rabbi Jonathan at Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo
Rabbi Jonathan Freirich joins the UU Church of Buffalo to provide readings and a sermon inspired by The Nation That Never Was, by Kermit Roosevelt III.