Sunday, May 3 at 9am in the Fireside Room and on Zoom
As our communities reckon with and begin to recover from the worst months of the ICE occupation, St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church is devoting our May faith forums to rediscovering ways of Finding Courage in Community. We are doing this by exploring how the three Abrahamic Faiths have found courage through communal spiritual practices of resistance, resilience, and restoration over generations past, present, and yet-to-come. Our speaker for May 3, “Finding Courage in Community in Judaism,” will be Rabbi Jill Avrin.
Rabbi Jill Avrin is the Senior Educator and Director of Campus Affairs at the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Her work centers around supporting Jewish students, staff, and faculty on college campuses and working to improve the campus climate for all students. She is originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, received her BA from the University of Minnesota in 2004, and was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 2013. Following ordination, she spent ten years working as a congregational rabbi at Bet Shalom Congregation in Minnetonka, MN, serving as the Rabbi Educator and Associate Rabbi. Over her years in Minnesota, she founded YourJewish, a home-based Jewish organization, and has served on the Board of Minneapolis Jewish Federation, Minnesota Hillel, and on committees for the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, the Overseas Committee at Federation, and was a co-chair of the Minnesota Rabbinical Association.
