“We Need to Talk About Antisemitism.”
To address that fraught topic, several area groups will sponsor a conversation this Thursday (November 30, 7 p.m., The Conservative Synagogue).
Rabbis Jeremy Wiederhorn and Evan Schultz join Rabbi Diana Fersko, whose book “We Need to Talk About Antisemitism” was published this summer. They will discuss the recent rise in antisemitism, and how to address it.
Organizers include The Conservative Synagogue, Temple Israel, Congregation B’nai Israel, Jewish Federation of Greater Fairfield County, and the Jewish Book Council.
Click here to register.
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Speaking of Israel:
Lily Rimm — “06880”‘s great social media coordinator — and her Staples High School friend Audrey Bunan are planning at walk supporting “our brothers and sisters” in Israel , at the Staples track (Sunday, December 17, noon to 1:30 p.m.)
The base fee for donations is $18, though participants may give as much as they wish. The collection will be made at the event.
Funds will be given to United Hatzalah, whose network of more than 7,000 volunteer medics save thousands of lives each year across Israel, by providing immediate and free medical treatment.
Questions? Email lilbirdgirl1@gmail.com
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Speaking still of Israel: The Coleman family — longtime Westporters — were downtown yesterday.
They handed out posters of kidnapped Israelis, and asked shoppers to “keep them in your heart.”
Andrew and Relly were joined by visiting daughter Sharon.
“We have so much to be thankful for,” Relly says.
“We were thinking about the hostages, and how each one is an entire world with an individual story of hope and trauma. We wanted to do something to help remind people of them as individual people.”
The response, Relly says, was “overwhelmingly positive and heartwarming.”
Sharon, Relly and Andrew Coleman, on Main Street.
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Most campaign signs were picked up soon after the election — as required by town regulations.
But a few still linger.
Bayberry Lane, near Cross Highway. (Photo/Tom Prince)
I’m sure the ones still standing were just overlooked.
But it’s been 20 days since the election. Perhaps it’s okay now — though it wasn’t, prior to voting — for citizens to take things into their own hands?
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So many elements of “Westport … Naturally” — water, nature, rocks, sky — come together in this photo of Long Island Sound at Old Mill Beach, with Compo Cove in the distance.
(Photo/Karen Como)
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And finally … on this day in 1896, Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Zarathustra was performed for the first time.
It was decently known before 1968. But then …
Fun fact: When “2001: A Space Odyssey” was released, the future was 33 years away. Now, we’re 22 years — exactly 2/3 — away, on the other end.
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