HSMNY Chapter Meeting of Thursday, July 10, 2014 The title of this event is Humanistic Judaism. Our special guest speaker, Edward J. Klein (Ed) / Yekhezkel Katan (Zeke). By profession, he is a lawyer, Certified Public Accountant and a trained classical musician, who plays Clarinet in the Amore Opera Company in Manhattan. He was a Reconstructionist Jew for nine years and had his epiphany in 1980 listening to the Larry King radio show which had Sherwin Wine as one of the interviewees. Reconstructionism quickly became his halfway house. At the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism he received his Madrikh designation and Music Director in 2001 and received his Masters in Secular Humanistic Judaism in 2012. He is completing his Masters in Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College/City University of New York. His Rabbinic ordination is scheduled for November 15, 2014. He is one of the founders of the Queens Society for Humanistic Judaism, which became the Queens Community for Cultural Judaism and is the Madrikh of the QCCJ and the Long Island Havurah for Humanistic Judaism. He is a longtime member of the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations and the Society for Humanistic Judaism. He is on the Board of Governors of the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism. For questions, please call Beth Lamont at 914-588-5284 or e-mail HSMNY Executive Director Stephen James at . Note: This HSMNY Chapter Meeting Announcement Notice can be found on the HSMNY Web site at . Links: HSMNY - corliss-lamont.org/hsmny/ Moonstruck East Restaurant (map) - corliss-lamont.org/hsmny/map-mser.htm AHA - americanhumanist.org/ RSVP (optional, but recommended): Meetup - meetup/Humanist-Society-of-Metropolitan-New-York/events/193451242/ Admission: Free, but annual HSMNY membership is encouraged. $25.00 singles / $35.00 couples
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