Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, will be the featured speaker at this year’s Metropolitan Council of Reform Congregations Shabbat on Friday, Feb. 15, 7:30 p.m., at Congregation Sinai, 8223 N. Port Washington Rd.
Saperstein is both a rabbi and an attorney. He has headed the RAC for more than 30 years.
He is also co-chair of the Coalition to Preserve Religious Liberty, a member of the boards of the NAACP and People for The American Way, and a teacher at the Georgetown University Law School. In 2009, Newsweek magazine named him the most influential rabbi in the U.S.
The RAC, according to its web site, “educates and mobilizes the Reform Jewish community on legislative and social concerns, advocating on more than 70 different issues, including economic justice, civil rights, religious liberty, Israel and more.” It is the “social justice arm” of the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, according to the site.
The MCRC membership comprises all the Reform congregations of southeastern Wisconsin: Beth Hillel Temple in Kenosha; Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun in River Hills; Congregation Emanu-El of Waukesha; and Congregations Shalom and Sinai, both in Fox Point.
For more information about this event, contact Congregation Sinai, 414-352-2970 or www.congregationsinai.org.
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