January 2016 Bulletin - Congregation Beth Israel, Portland Oregon

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“ Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Bulletin January 2016 Tevet-Shevat 5776 Vol. 65, No. 4

Honor the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Friday, January 15, 7:00 pm, Temple Guest Speaker: Dr. C.T. Vivian

Please join us for our annual Shabbat service commemorating Dr. King’s undying message of equality and civil rights. We welcome activist, visionary, and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Dr. C.T. Vivian as the featured guest speaker at this year’s celebration, which also features performances by members of the NW Community Gospel Choir and Beth Israel’s Kol Echad choir. Dr. Vivian, who has provided civil rights counsel to Presidents Johnson, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and Obama, is widely known for his work with Dr. King, serving as National Director of Affiliates and strategist for every Southern Christian Leadership Conference

(S.C.L.C.) organization, working in Birmingham to help enact the Civil Rights Bill and in Selma, the Voting Rights Bill, and for his active participation on movements around the country. He developed, organized and launched Vision (later to be known as Upward Bound), an educational program that assisted over seven hundred Alabama students to attend college on scholarship. As an educator, Dr. Vivian has trained ministers and developed the urban curriculum for seminaries throughout the nation at the Urban Training Center in Chicago. In his tenure as Dean of Divinity at Shaw University Seminary, he originated and acquired funding for an unprecedented national level program, the basis of his doctoral work, Seminary Without Walls. In 2008, he founded the C.T. Vivian Leadership Institute, Inc for the purpose of training and educating a new generation of grass-roots leaders.

FOOD! DRINK! FUN!

Sunday, January 31 5 PM - 8 PM

Castaway 1900 NW 18th

FEATURING

many of Portland's best restaurants, wineries, distilleries, and breweries. Tickets available online at www.bethisrael-pdx.org or call 503-222-1069.


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