Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action - www.jewishalliance.org. 
18 Tremont Street, Suite 320, Boston, 02108 - tel: 617-227-3000 fax: 617-227-3453

9 Iyyar 5764                                                                                                                   April 30, 2004

Community Events of Note

Dear Friends:

Those of us who went to Washington, D.C. for the March for Women's Liveswere energized and exhilarated.  We are sending out this email quickly this afternoon so that you may know about the coverage given to the March tonight on NOW with Bill Moyers.

                                                                                               Sheila Decter

Community Events of Note

NOW with Bill Moyers
Friday, April 30 8 pm in the Boston area on WGBH
Program will feature the Religious Coalition on Reproductive Rights and
the Reform Jewish Movement.
Some of JALSA's members who took the ACELA train with RCRR to the
Washington march may be seen.

 

Saturday, May 1
BEAM Annual Conference (Black Educators Alliance of Mass.)
"Pursuing Academic Excellence: 50 Years After Brown v. Board of Education"
Sonesta Hotel,Cambridge 8-4
Our JALSA Board Member Mary Ann Hardenbergh will be a workshop presenter

Tuesday, May 4 10 am
Anticipated report regarding Racial Profiling Data
Northeastern University, Curry Student Center Room 442
Press Conference of the Secretary of Public Safety and the
Attorney General will follow at 11:00 in room 448
Advocates and community groups anticipate having a press conference
to respond to the data on Wednesday. Call the office for details
which have not been finalized.
 

Sunday, May 2
We Lift Our Lamp: Jewish Journeys to America and Today's Immigrant Experience
Featuring reflections by JWA Historian-in-Residence Karla Goldman
speaking on
In Search of Promised Land: 350 Years of Jewish Immigration to North America, and
music by the Workmen Circles Yiddish Community Chorus, A Besere Velt (A Better World).
Hebrew College, 3 PM 160 Herrick Street Newton Center
This event is free and open to the public.

Other events celebrating 350 years of Jews in America
Monday, May 3 6 pm
Screening of the film, Crossing Delancey
Boston Public Library, Johnson Building Auditorium
Screenings are free, doors open at 5:30 PM

Tuesday, May 4 6 pm
Screening of the film, A Time to Dance
Part of JWA film series, co-curated by the Boston Jewish Film Festival
Boston Public Library, Johnson Building Auditorium
Screenings are free, doors open at 5:30 PM
Directed by local filmmakers Ian Brownell and Webb Wilcoxen,
A Time to Dance tells the story of Norma Canner,
a pioneer in the Dance Therapy Movement.
People of all ages and all manner of handicaps and emotional difficulties
have benefited from working with this charismatic woman who uses movement
and art as a catalyst for self-discovery, change, and healing.
The film traces her career from the Broadway stage in the late 1930s, to
her groundbreaking work in creative movement with disabled
and mentally retarded children in the 1960s, to her current
dance therapy work with adults. Now in her eighties, Norma
Canner lives in Cambridge and is still dancing.
Norma Canner and director Ian Brownell will be present to
discuss the film and answer questions.

Sunday, May 9 2-4 pm
And Now About My Mother
A Mothers Day celebration at the Boston Public Library
Join us as four Boston sons reflect upon their mothers'
lives and impact in Boston and beyond. Featuring: Congressman Barney Frank,
teacher Alan Morse, author Richard Kazis, and attorney Arthur Waldstein.
Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library
Followed by a desert reception at Neiman Marcus, 5 Copley Place, Level 2
This event is free and open to the public

5 Tuesdays, May 4 - June 1 8:00pm - 10:00pm
White People Challenging Racism:
Moving From Talk to Action
Series on Challenging Racism
Conducted by Community Change
Cambridge Center on Adult Education, 42 Brattle Street, Harvard Square
$25 for the series
Facilitators: Marjorie Dove & Pamela Goldstein

Sunday, May 9 4 pm - 7 pm
First Annual Benefit Concert for
Community Change, Inc
35 Years of Action for Racial Justice
No Turning Back
with an innovative trio representing New England's best
George W. Russell, Jr., Piano
David Zinno, Acoustic Bass
Herb King, Drums
Ryles Jazz Club 212 Hampshire Street (Inman Square) Cambridge, MA
Award-winning vocalist Semenya McCord will feature music and poetic excerpts
from the past 90 years of official Mother's Day celebrations across the
United States, along with her own electric jazz styling.

May 19 5:30-7:00
Reception commemorating Morgan v. Hennigan, the decision ordering the desegregation of Boston's public schools and honoring those attorneys who took part in this historic case. Gary Orfield, Speaker, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Founding Co-Director, Harvard Civil Rights Project
Law Offices of Foley Hoag, LLP, 155 Seaport Boulevard, Boston
Co-sponsored by Foley Hoag, LLP, Foley Hoag Foundation, and the Lawyers Committee for
Civil Rights Under Law.

Tuesday, May 4  5-7pm
Law Offices of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Poppeo, LLP
Reception and Book-signing with Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
All Deliberate Speed. Reflections on the First Half-Century Since
Brown v. the Board of Education
Sponsored by Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Poppeo, LLP
and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

 

                    ###