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The Ethical Culture Society of Essex County
516 Prospect Street, Maplewood, New Jersey 07040 Phone 973-763-1905 Email: ethicalessex@netscape.com
Board of Trustees: Terri Suess, President;
Lisa Novemsky Vice-President; Marty Cotler, Treasurer
Trustees: Freda Fink-Armstrong; Susan Kennedy; Betty Levin;
Fred Sebastian
Boe Meyerson, Leader Emerita; Jim White, Leader Emeritus
Today is Updated 6-28-09
Having a Wonderful Summer!
Snapshots of Boe's Luncheon
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The view from Boe's deck...
Left to right, Sylvia Kramer, Mira Stillman, and Terri Seuss twice. Rosalie Sussman and Barbara Cotler in the background.
Lisa Novemsky and Andy Weinberger
Betty Levin Marty Cotler
Next Social Action Committee Meeting
Monday, July 13, 7:00 PM at the SocietyFolk Fridays -- The Second Friday of the Month --
July 10 Coming Up!We're in the news! Click here!
Some 2009 Platforms:
Christopher Geissler: L essons from a Unique Religious Hybrid in Ancient China
Upcoming Events
Snapshots
Social Action Committee
Ethical in the News!
See photo of our Pete Seeger Event!
Follow up to Our Platforms
Barry Zack's website Our Neighborhood Earth has excellent links for more information about Global Warming and How to Stop it
The Star-Ledger editoral supports giving INSIDE/OUT to the inmates who wrote it!
INSIDE/OUT made the front page of the April 21, 2009 STAR-LEDGER!
Inside Out: Voices From New Jersey State Prison, Kal Wagenheim, editor.
Poems, stories, memoirs and commentaries by 43 inmates who took part in a creative writing workshop. Compiled and edited by Kal Wagenheim, who directed the workshop. Theo Bensen of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation says, "Moving stories and poems that come from the heart...This program might well be transplanted to other institutions."
Order here . Profits will be donated to efforts to improve educational opportunities for inmates and re-entry programs once they are released from prison. Here's what one of the inmate authors said:
"Dear Professor Kal, Thank you so much for all that you've done for us. Thank you a million times for believing in us. Please send me a copy of the book as soon as you can. In my plight often do I feel helpless. I feel like I'm not making a contribution to anything. A wise man said that the best man is he who is of maximum benefit to all people. To know that the book will benefit others makes my heart happy. The more I mature into a real man the more I want to help myself, family, and others in need. A real man finds his purpose in life. A real man leaves as great legacy. I was inspired by you through your creative writing workshop. I believe I can achieve many of my goals through creative writing..."
Dean Sluyter, who spoke on "Buddhas in the Classroom," has information about his books and meditation at his website.
Also, take a look at his article on The Huffington Post!
Recent platform speaker Nancy Gross has an interesting
blog on books and medical topics at
http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/blog/
Food Drive Continues
Food Bank of New Jersey
The items they need the most are:
Canned tuna,
Canned chili, vegetables, fruits
Canned hearty soups with protein
Please Bring Food now and leave in lobby 10 a.m. - 8p.m.
Self-Help Clearing House
/http://www.selfhelpgroups.org.
Read MLK's speeches online (January 11 Platform):
Beyond Vietnam
http://www.mlkonline.net/vietnam.html
Letter from the Birmingham Jail
http://www.mlkonline.net/jail.htmlNonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom
http://www.teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1426
You Are Invited...
Events at the Society and Elsewhere
94th Annual AEU Assembly!!
June 11-14, 2009
The American Ethical Union's 94th Assembly, hosted by Ethical Society Mid Rivers will be held this year in St. Louis, MO. To learn more and register, go to www.regonline.com/aeu.
Next Social Action Committee Meeting
Monday, July 13, 7:00 PM at the Society
Minutes of the May 3,2009 meeting
Folk Fridays at Ethical
Singalong with friends
Lucky, Dusty, & Rusty
July 10
Second Friday of each month
Ethical Culture Society
516 Prospect St
Maplewood, NJ 07040
7:30 PM
lnovemsky@comcast.net 973 763-1905
No admission fee
Feldenkrais
Awareness Through Movement Lesson
Led by
The Feldenkrais Group of Maplewood/South Orange
Feldenkrais Guild Certified Practitioners
Wear comfortable loose clothing
Bring mat, yoga mat, or quilt to lie on
Place: The Ethical Culture Society of Essex County
Next Date: TBA
Donations to Ethical Culture accepted
The Ethical Culture Society of Essex County
516 Prospect Street, Maplewood, New Jersey 07040
Phone 973-763-1905
Email: ethicalessex@netscape.com
An invitation to Veterans
And Families of Veterans
Next Session Coming Soon
The Welcome Home Project is a program for helping veterans and families of veterans transform and transcend the effects of war. Before, during, or after deployment. We offer a safe space for veterans and families to come together and share their stories, struggles, accomplishments, and solutions. And the help of others. We are a group of concerned citizens, psychotherapists, interfaith leaders, veterans, and military families.
For information, Call Ed Bokert 973 762-6036
or email ethicalessex@netscape.com for next January meeting date
Ethical Culture Society building
516 Prospect St.
(corner of Parker Ave)
Maplewood, NJ
Program is Free & confidential, (donations welcome).
For next dates and more Information, call 973 762-6036 or 973 763-1033
Tai Chi at Ethical!
Click here for information
Snapshots of Health Care Discussion 12-28-08
From Boe:
Dear Members and Friends of Essex Ethical Society: Hannah Berkley passed away, Tuesday Jan. 13, 2009 in the evening. I had just visited her earlier in the day and had seen her the week before. I was told by the nursing director that she had lost the ability to swallow and had elected to go into their hospice program. I have been in touch with her family: her son Lincoln who is in China and her daughter-in-law Marcie who lives in Boston but came down to see her earlier in the week after I had requested that the family obtain a private duty nurse. Her son Forest was away in the Andes. There will be a memorial service at the Society at a time to be determined by the family.
Sorrowfully,
Boe
Statement on Religious Identity
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Boe Meyerson, Terri Seuss, and Win Thies
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Click here to learn more about the positions of
four presidential candidates on important issues.
Public Affairs forum and discussion group
WIth Leader Boe Meyerson
1st and 3rd Sundays at 1:00
Ethical Philosophy Lecture/Discussion
WIth Leader Boe Meyerson
2nd and 4th Sundays at 1:00
Interested in Joining our Society?
Call a Co-Chair of the Membership Committee:
Barbara Cotler 973-762-5287
Terri Seuss 973-374-2617
Small weddings, Bar@Bat mitzvahs,
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Of Interest to All!
Barbara and Marty Cotler recommend!!
Miracle on Mulberry Street
With Ezie Cotler!!
December 12 - January 10 2009
Friday and Saturday at 8:00 PM
Theater33 and The Players Theatre
115 MacDougal Street, NY, NY
212-352-3101
http://www.miracleonmulberry.com
Martin Luther King Day Events:
South Orange Civic Organization's Beloved Community Awards
Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 3:00 -- South Orange Middle School
South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition's Martin Luther King Day Program
Monday, January 19, 2009: "Making It More Than A Dream," taking place this year at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 767 Prospect St., Maplewood at 3:00 P.M.
More:
Academic Achievement Gap Study Groups
January 22, 29, and February 5, and 12 2009
The Schools Committee of the South Orange/Maplewood Community Coalition on Race is offering this exciting series of speakers and facilitated discussions based on the latest research and readings on the Minority Achievement Gap. Join in the discussion and development of practical solutions for the major issue facing many school districts including our own. The series is offered free of charge, but registration and a commitment to the four sessions will be required. Participants will receive a reading list upon registration. In Service Credits for educators will be issued at the end of series. For information about the schedule and to register, call 973-761-6116, ext. 6.
Recent Members
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Interested in Being Green?
A Statement from Susan Rose,
Leader of the Ethical Society without Walls
(and former member of our Society)
Information for Members:
By-Laws
List of Greeters & Hospitality
Snapshots of recent events
SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE
STATEMENT ON HEALTH CARE REFORM!
For online articles about Health Care in the U.S., click here.
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Mini Market We are continuing with Nancy Bohn’s idea for raising funds after the Sunday Platform — offering good, useful items for re-sale. If you would like to participate, bring your clean, saleable items on Sunday, we will sort and ticket those that are marketable. You take them back home if not sold — or just peruse the goods, and maybe you’ll find something you’ve been looking for. Items are on a table on Sunday, then on the mantle during the week.
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Word Out Check their latest movies & forums -- New Word Out! email address -- For film and event notices throughout NNJ email wordout@myway.com Word Out! ...for a better World.
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Click here for schedule of coffee and greeters plus instructions.
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The Social Action Committee invites you to view The Ethical Action Report from the AEU. Click here to see it.
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Have you wondered about our excellent piano player Janet Mangano? Click here to learn more!
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Contact information for members and friends.
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Past Newsletters--(You'll need Acrobat Reader to read this: to download it for free, click here.)
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Model Advanced Directive
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Essex Ethical Culture Society Position on Physician-Assisted Dying: Click here and here
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