BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.6//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:406@wlcj.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220119T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220119T190000 DTSTAMP:20220106T180946Z URL:https://www.wlcj.org/events/wlcj-open-board-meeting-wednesday-january- 19th-700-pm-et/ SUMMARY:WLCJ Open Board Meeting - Wednesday\, January 19th @ 7:00 PM ET DESCRIPTION:You're Invited to Our\n\nOpen Board Meeting\n\nWednesday\, Janu ary 19th \;@ 7 PM ET\n\nREGISTER HERE\n\nDvar Torah - Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin\n\nPart of the first class of women ordained as Conservative rabbis \, Nina Beth Cardin embraced the unconventional path of a “community pul pit” by founding healing centers and creating new ways to approach misca rriage and loss. Cardin created the Jewish Women’s Resource Center in 19 78 before joining the first group of women admitted to the Jewish Theologi cal Seminary in 1984. Embracing a “broad definition” of what it meant to be a rabbi\, Cardin focused her work on counseling\, from advising rabb inical students at JTS to serving as founding associate director of the Na tional Center for Jewish Healing and director of Jewish life at the JCC of Greater Baltimore. Cardin also edited \;Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility\, and wrote a number of books on ritual and spirituality\, including \;Tears of Sorrow\, Seeds of Hope\, which addresses issues o f miscarriage and loss. She later turned to environmentalism\, founding th e Baltimore Jewish Environmental Network and the Baltimore Orchard Project \, which grows and distributes food to the needy\, and served as a consult ant to COEJL\, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.wlcj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ open.png CATEGORIES:Featured END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR