We hope you’ve all had a wonderful and restful school vacation week, and meaningful and joyous Passover celebrations! School is in session this Sunday, April 28---don’t forget your tzedaka money and snack. Please also join us this Saturday, April 27, for Pajama Havdallah, dinner, and a seasonal children's movie. Read on for details.
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(This piece written by TEMV board member Dana Rudolph. All opinions are her own.) I’ve been celebrating the spring holidays with my interfaith family and reflecting that Passover and Easter this year come in the shadow of ongoing and spiteful religious exemption laws in a growing number of states and in the federal government. These laws, widely seen as targeting the LGBTQ community along with Jews and others, would allow people to cite their religious beliefs as a reason to discriminate. I have to remind myself, however, that we shouldn’t set religion and LGBTQ equality as necessarily opposing forces.
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