WEBINAR

The Jewish Case for Voting
and Civic Engagement

Wednesday, September 30, 2:00 PM ET

Civic engagement is a core American Jewish value – religious and civic. Yet, just as the COVID-19 pandemic has altered almost every aspect of the way we live and work, inevitably it will also impact how we vote this November.  This webinar will focus on the efforts different Jewish religious denominations are taking to promote a strong democracy and election participation during COVID-19.

Featuring:

 
 

Rabbi Ashira Konigsburg
Chief Operating Officer
Rabbinical Assembly

Rabbi Jonah Pesner
Director

Religious Action Center of
Reform Judaism

Rabbi Moshe Hauer
Executive Vice President
Orthodox Union

 

Rabbi Deborah Waxman
President
Reconstructing Judaism

Bios:

Rabbi Moshe Hauer joined the Orthodox Union (OU) as its Executive Vice President on May 1, 2020. In this role he serves as the organization’s rabbinic leader, heading its communal-oriented efforts and serving as its professional religious/policy leader and primary spokesman. 

Rabbi Ashira Konigsburg is the Chief Operating Offer at the Rabbinical Assembly. She earned an MA in Talmud and Rabbinics and Rabbinic Ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary. 

Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner serves as the Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism. He has led the Religious Action Center since 2015. Rabbi Pesner also serves as Senior Vice President of the Union for Reform Judaism, a position to which he was appointed to in 2011. 

Rabbi Deborah Waxman, Ph.D., became president of Reconstructing Judaism in 2014, and is the first woman rabbi to head a Jewish congregational union and a Jewish seminary. Since then, she has drawn on her training as a rabbi and historian to be the Reconstructionist movement’s leading voice in the public square. 

 

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