Kabbalat Shabbat Service

Welcome Shabbat whether in the Sanctuary or online! Tonight. To listen to the service dial 847-869-4230 and press 7.

Our Oneg Shabbat is sponsored by the Singer family. We will also be joined by Rabbi Joseph Edelheit and guests from Trinity Lutheran Church.

Rabbi Joseph Edelheit will be giving a sermon. His Biography below:

Joseph Edelheit was ordained at HUC-JIR-Cincinnati 1973. served Emanuel Congregation as Asst 1973-1976, then Sinai Temple Michigan City 1976-1985….during which he was President of CCAR, Rabbinic Chair of OSRUI, and began teaching at Valparaiso University. This also linked him to the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he was a Furenstenberg Fellow. He served as Senior Rabbi at Emanuel Congregation 1985-92, where he was the Coustan Family rabbi! During this period, he also became very involved in HIV/AIDS, serving as the Chr of the CCAR/UAHC Joint Commission on HIV/AIDS.

He would go on to serve on President Clinton’s Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS 19965-2000

His two older children, Esther and Shanan, were educated at Beth Emet, celebrating their Benei Mitzvah and Confirmation. Their mother, Naomi Angel, has been a long-time member of Beth Emet…

His two younger children, Eve and Talia, were educated at Temple Israel Mpls, where he was the Senior Rabbi and hired Rabbi Andrea London to begin her rabbinate. He served as Prof and Director of Religious and Jewish Studies at St. Cloud State University….from which he retired in 2016.

Rabbi Edelheit was honored by the Divinity School in 2020 when he was named Alum of the Year…the first ever given to a rabbi…for his work in interfaith dialogue and the issues of antisemitism…he is here now participating in the Conference of Society of Ricoeur Studies where today he led a panel on Refiguring the Sacred: Conversations with Paul Ricoeur of which he is a major editor and contributor.

Rabbi Edelheit is ‘retired’. lives in Rio de Janeiro…where he writes and walks on the beach…..

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