Dear KI Members,

I’m pleased to be back working with KI both this week and next. As always, don’t hesitate to email or phone me if you need anything.
A couple of noteworthy items for your consideration:
First, this Sunday is the Global Day of Jewish Learning. Rabbi Bigman and I will be teaching from 10-11 AM on this year’s theme of Human Dignity.To attend, you must register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAlde6sqTsvE9GyWjmGTLTmc7VIp-SHNjud. Nicole Ellefson and Margot Valles, Shaarey Zedek’s religious school director, have created programming for our school children from 11-12 PM. There will be a separate link for this Zoom meeting. To register your child(ren), please go to:https://msu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsdOigqDooG9SY3hrgXHzgULr-F3giaUFh. 
Second, the International March of the Living, The Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience at Rutgers University, and the Jüdischen Gemeinde Frankfurt are creating a media event to commemorate Kristallnacht. The program will air on the anniversary of Kristallnacht – The Night of Broken Glass, on November 9th at 7:00PM EST, on the Jewish Broadcasting Service (jbstv.org), Jerusalem Post website (jpost.com), and International March of the Living website (motl.org).The program will include:

• Kristallnacht testimony from witness Norbert Strauss and archival testimony provided by the USC Shoah Foundation
• Keynote address from noted Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Irving Roth
• Paul S. Miller, Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience, Rutgers University
• Prof. John J. Farmer Jr., Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics of Rutgers University and the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience
• Dr. Joel Finkelstein, Rutgers Center for Secure Communities
• Stephan Kramer, President of the State-Agency for the Protection of the Constitution in Thuringia, Germany
• Moderated by Richard D. Heideman, President of the American Zionist Movement
• Musical presentations by past March of the Living performers

As part of this virtual initiative, people from all over the world, of all religions and backgrounds, are invited to write personal messages of hope in their own words on the campaign website: www.motl.org/let-there-be-light.

In the meantime, I look forward to seeing you at Shabbat morning services this weekend.
Rabbi Matthew