BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3446@tbzbrookline.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230506T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230506T140000 DTSTAMP:20230414T172356Z URL:https://www.tbzbrookline.org/events/kiddush-talk-making-shabbat-with-j oe-reimer/ SUMMARY:Kiddush Talk - How do we walk our faith? DESCRIPTION:How Do We Walk Our Faith? \n\nWe support the Louis D. Brown Pe ace Brown Institute and walk as a TBZ community in the Mother’s Day Walk for Peace! \n\nA thought-provoking Kiddush Talk on Saturday\, May 6th\n\ nHear from Boston community leaders Chaplain Clementina Chéry\, Reverend Irene Monroe\,\n\nand TBZ’s own Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett\n\nJoin us as we discuss the crisis of systemic violence in our neighboring communiti es\, how local experts are working to prevent and heal from it\, and what we can do as allies to promote peace. In support of the Mother’s Day Wal k for Peace\, this conversation will provide a lens for our community to u nderstand the issues that are plaguing our cities.\n\nTBZ members have bee n active participants in the Annual Mother’s Day Walk for Peace for the last 5 years and our community has stepped up to support the Institute bot h with our feet and with our donations.  Help us meet our fundraising goa l of $5000 this year!\n\nDonations support the important work of the LDBPI - a center for healing\, teaching\, and learning for families and communi ties impacted by murder\, trauma\, grief\, and loss. Donations can be made on behalf of the TBZ Team HERE.\n\nFor more information contact Barrie Ke ller or Judy Schechtman\n\n\n\nChaplain Clementina Chéry \n\nChaplain C lementina Chéry is the Founder\, President &\; CEO of the Louis D. Bro wn Peace Institute in Boston\, Massachusetts. The Peace Institute is a cen ter of healing\, teaching\, and learning for families and communities impa cted by murder\, trauma\, grief\, and loss. Chaplain Chéry and her family founded the Peace Institute in 1994 after her 15-year-young son Louis D. Brown was murdered in the crossfire of a shootout .Chaplain Chéry has dev eloped the best practices in the field of homicide response. Her professio nal goal is to transform society’s response to homicide so that all fami lies are treated with dignity and compassion\, regardless of the circumsta nces. Her spiritual goal is to become a Minister of God’s Peace that is rooted in love\, unity\, faith\, hope\, courage\, justice\, and forgivenes s. In 2023\, she launched The Peace Principle\, a podcast where she leads conversations on ways to heal our wounded hearts. Chaplain Chéry received an honorary Doctorate of Ministry from the College of the Holy Cross in W orcester\, Massachusetts and was ordained as a senior chaplain with the In ternational Fellowship of Chaplain\, Inc. in 2012. Her greatest accomplish ments are being the mother of Louis\, Alexandra and Allen\, and the grandm other of Alexander\, Adriel\, and Amani.\n\n\n\n                             \n\nDr. Katherine Gergen Barnett\n\nDr. Katherine Gergen Barnett is the Vice Chair of Primary Care Innovation and Transformation i n the Department of Family Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC)\, a Cli nical Associate Professor at Boston University Chobanian &\; Avedisian School of Medicine\, an Associate at Harvard’s Center for Primary Care\, and a Health Innovators Fellow at the Aspen Institute\, a highly competit ive fellowship that catalyzes leaders to improve US health care. At BMC\, she has served in multiple leadership roles including as a chief resident\ , Director of Integrative Medicine\, Medical Director\, Residency Director \, and Vice Chair. Her primary clinical interests are behavioral health\, preventive medicine\, nutrition\, trauma informed care\, gender affirming care\, women’s health\, reproductive care\, mindfulness-based stress red uction\, and group medical care. Dr. Gergen Barnett is involved in local a nd state health policy addressing health inequities\, national policy addr essing primary care delivery\, and is a regular contributor to The Boston Globe\, Boston Public Radio\, and multiple television outlets.\n\n \;\ n\n\n\nReverend Irene Monroe\n\nThe Rev. Irene Monroe\, is a public theolo gian\, ordained minister\, columnist\, and a nationally acclaimed activist . She can be heard weekly on the podcast and broadcast Boston Public Radio segment” All Rev'd Up” on WGBH Radio (89.7 FM). Monroe is the Boston voice for Detour’s African American Heritage Trail and History UnErased. Monroe’s columns appear locally in Bay Windows\, Bay State Banner\, Cam bridge Chronicle\, Dig Boston\, Op-eds pieces in the Boston Globe\, Huffin gton Post\, and in several cities across the country and in the U.K\, and Canada. A native of Brooklyn\, NY\, Monroe graduated from Wellesley Colleg e and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University\, she was instrume ntal in Union United Methodist Church\, a predominately African American c hurch in Boston's South End\, becoming a Reconciling Congregation\, first in New England. Monroe has taught at Harvard\, Andover Newton Theological Seminary\, Episcopal Divinity School and UNH. Monroe is a founder and now member emeritus of several national LGBTQ+ black and religious organizatio ns\,  and as  an activist Monroe has received numerous awards. Her paper s are at the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College’s Research Library on the History of Women in America. As  an activist Monroe has received numerous awards. By  reporting religion in the news she aims to highlight how religious intolerance and fundamentalism not only shatters the goal o f American democracy\, but also aids in perpetuating other forms of oppres sion such as racism\, sexism\, classism and anti-Semitism.\n\n \n\n \ ; END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR