Israeli Chronicles — Connecting Israel & Cincinnati
Director of “Women of the Wall” to Speak at Adath Israel Congregation
From 7:30 to 9 p.m. on April 11, Lesley Sachs will be at Adath Israel Congregation to meet and speak with the Jewish community about the Women of the Wall. The discussion will be followed by a reception at Adath Israel Congregation.
Sachs has been leading Women of the Wall since 2008. She is a women’s rights pioneer, striving for gender equality and religious freedom at the Western Wall. Sachs was one of the founding members of “Isha L isha-Haifa’s Feminist Center” and worked for 10 years in the Israel Women’s Network. She served as Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center and then as Vice President of the World Union For Progressive Judaism.
Sachs’s talk follows recent groundbreaking legislation in Israel that paves the way for egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall.
Visit jewishcincinnati.org/israelity to RSVP.
This presentation is part of the 2016 Israelity speaker series, “All Sorts of Israel.” This year’s featured speakers will bring different Israeli perspectives to Cincinnati. The series is brought to you by the Jewish Federation of Cincinnati in collaboration with the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Mayerson JCC.
