Sarah Weiss, Director of the JCRC, at JCRC's annual meeting.
July 12, 2016 |
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JCRC Quarterly Recap: July
We at the JCRC have had an eventful few months! Here’s a quarterly recap. — Sarah
Responding to the refugee crisis in Europe and the U.S., our board asked us to assess the magnitude of the issue, to learn what has been done by the American Jewish community in the past and exploreMIchelle Kohn, President of JCRC, at JCRC’s annual meeting.what is being done, locally. We published some of what we learned, here.
We partnered with a new organization led by Pastor Robert Harper of First Baptist Church of Kennedy Heights that is dedicated to countering teen suicide and depression. Especially in the African American community among the young, hope is sometimes hard to find. Cathy Strunk the director of Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s “Surviving Our Teens” program led the first training with more than 50 parents and teens in attendance. We look forward to helping this organization grow.
We celebrated the achievement and perseverance of Rabbi Margie Meyer, president of MARCC on the passage of City Council’s resolution to recognize a new photo ID card. This is intended to improve public safety by providing identification to people who otherwise do not have an ID card – people returning from prison, the homeless, immigrants, and especially those living here without legal documentation.
We hosted Dr. Matthew Levitt, the director of the Washington Institute’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, in an open conference call as he updated us all on the behind-the-scenes efforts to counter the efforts of terrorists.
We brought together the leaders in Cincinnati’s initiative to end child poverty. As a community, we deepened our understanding of The State of Black Cincinnati, the Child Poverty Collaborative, the AMOS Project, Preschool Promise, and the current plan to fund Cincinnati Public Schools.
This quarter we also completed two of our courses: the Osher Lifelong Learning Program where many adults encounter Judaism for the first time and our Israel on Campus Fellowship, Cincinnati’s first pre-college program that teaches teens the history of Israel and prepares them for the potential of anti-Israel bias that is commonly found on today’s college campuses.
