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The
Ethical Culture
Society of Essex County
516 Prospect Street, Maplewood,
New Jersey 07040
Phone 973-763-1905
Email: info@essexethical.org
Board of Trustees: Anja Moen, President,
Lisa Novemsky Vice-President,
Susan Kennedy, Secretary, Marty Cotler, Treasurer
Trustees: Richard Bohn, Zia Durrani,
Betty Levin, Allan Parmet,
Fred Sebastian, Rosalie Sussman
Boe Meyerson, Leader Emerita; Jim White, Leader Emeritus
Today is
Updated 9-2-10
Sunday Morning Platform
September 12, 2010
Society President Anja Moen
Leads a Colloquy on
Innovative Thinking
The temporary e-mail address for the Essex Ethical Culture Society is:
info@essexethical.org
(The Society E-mail has not been functioning for about two weeks.
Please accept our apologies for the failure of communications! )
Upcoming Events at the Society
and in the Community
Click here for Members Who Would Like Get Well Notes and Cards
Photos from Mountaintop Removal Platform
News & Recent Events
Follow-Up to Last Year's Platforms
Molly Gilman!
Food for the Needy
We Are Collecting Food for those who need it locally.
Please bring nonperishables to the box in the lobby of the Society building.
Popular items include: Canned tuna, Canned chili,
Vegetables, fruits, canned hearty soups with protein
Leave in lobby 10 a.m. - 8p.m.
Please Bring Books for Children to the Society!
New and Gently used books needed to be distributed to needy local families through the Parenting Center. Picture books are especially requested, but all books for children through fifth grade welcomed. Leave them in the small room off the parlor.
We are still seeking donation of a copy machine for the office
Upcoming Events at the Society
and in the Community
Molly played Ariel in The Tempest
with the Hudson Shakespeare Company
NYC Performance: August 15
See Molly's website
September Events
Martha Gallahue Betty Levin Lisa Novemsky
September 10, 2010
Folk Fridays 7:30 PMSeptember 19, 2010 Social Action Committee Meeting After Platform
September 26, 2010 Rededication of our Peace Site
11:00 A.M. Platform with Martha Gallahue, "Peace Building in the Community. 12:30 PM Ceremony of Rededication led by E. Betty Levin with music by the Solidarity Singers. Community Singing, Lunch served. Free, but donations accepted.September 26th is an important date that will be marked by a special Platform address by Martha Gallahue, a lunch (contributed by the members), the Solidarity Singers contributing their services, and a number of speakers and singers. Come join us for a rousing and memorable celebratory day.
Peace actions often take heartening turns if our consciousness remains with peace. With a heavy heart, I left New Jersey the week the hibakusha from Japan make their annual visit here to commemorate the dropping of the A-bomb. As you know, hibakusha are survivors of that horrendous happening. My absence was due to a creativity conference for therapists in Santa Fe, New Mexico. What I didn’t realize is that Santa Fe is only 40 miles from Los Alamos where the bomb was built. On the August 5th anniversary, a boisterous demonstration appeared on the Plaza, an evergreen outdoor community center park, marching, singing, lasso-twirling young people making their passions known. I joined in, singing along, interviewed, photographed, even making a speech with the mike they gladly thrust in my face, enthusiastically supporting their efforts “from the East.”
I trust you humanists from all locales will joyously help rededicate our Peace Site. See you there!
— E. Betty Levin, Director, Peace Activities
The idea for a Department of Peace was originally introduced in 1792 by Benjamin Banneker, a brilliant astronomer, mathematician and surveyor of the future Washington, D.C>, and Dr. Benjamin Rush, a medical doctor and educator who signed the Declaration of Independence. Banneker's 1973 Almanac includes references to a Department of Peace to balance the Department of War. It is reported that both george Washington and Thomas Jefferson liked Banneker's and Rush's ideas. Yet, of 200 years later, we still don't have a Department of Peace.
Members: If your last name begins with A-G, please bring a main course; K-P bring a salad and rolls; R-W bring a dessert and cold beverages. Please bring amount sufficient for at least 6 people. Thank you.
October Events
Saturday, October 16, 2010 2:00 - 4:00 PM
Memorial for Doris Rados
Folk Fridays at Ethical
Singalong with friends
Lucky, Dusty, Rusty. & Tio Pepe
Second Fridays
Folk Fridays are expanding to invite all crafts people in the society to come and listen to music while doing crafts! On the 10th of September, we will start a community quilt for the society. Everyone is invited!
September 10, 2010
(Second Fridays of each month)
(We do not meet during the summer months)
Ethical Culture Society
516 Prospect St
Maplewood, NJ 07040
7:30 PM
lnovemsky@comcast.net 973-763-1905
News and Recent Events
May 14 Ms. Dot Maver, champion of the Peace Academy, spoke at the Society. Ms. Maver is a leader in the Peace Alliance and former campaign staffer in Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign.
May 15 7:00 - 9:00
Karen Bokert spoke at Third Saturday Artists on the influence of Native American art on her work.
The Board of Trustees of our Ethical Culture Society of Essex County
has joined the New Jersey Coalition on Reason. Learn more here!Video Clip of Singing from Boe's honoring event!
Memorial Service for Anita Roberts was held
Saturday, November 14, 2009
A graveside service was held for long time member and friend,
Hannah Mastrolia, was held on Sunday, October 11, 2:00 PM
at Riverside Cemetery in Saddlebrook, NJ.
Leader Emeritus Jim White conducted the service.
Memorial Service for Gigi Goldstein was held Saturday, October 31, 2009
Arts Evening at Ethical was held Saturday, November 21, 2009
Barbara Krales Cotler Spoke on her Art and Tina Kelly Read Poetry
Follow up to Our Platforms:
Military Families Speak Out (Michelle Munsat, April 18, 2010 speaker). Vigil every Wednesday 5:00 - 6:00 PM at Spiotta Park in South Orange (opposite Blockbuster). For weekly email newsletter, write MFSOEssexCounty@Hotmail.com
Learn more about Julius “Clown Chips” Carallo from the December 13, 2009 Plaform:http://www2.newpaltz.edu/little-rebellion/2010/03/students-look-beyond-the-mask-2/
Risa Olinsky spoke on January 3, 2010 on "Personal Accountability and Health."
To learn more, visit her website at www.RisaOlinsky.com .
See also her New York Times Blog entries at the Local.Read Steve Sklar's September 27, 2009 talk
For More information on Peter Montague's October 18 talk:
Environmental Research Foundation: purgenfacts@gmail.com
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance: Henryrose1199@hotmail.comHenryrose1199@hotmail.com
People's Organization for Progress, Central Jersey: popcentraljersey.org
Essex Greens: essexcountygreens@gmail.comMore on Transitioning to Green:
Linking Talent to Opportunity
For follow up on last year's platforms, click here.
Upcoming Platforms
Current Newsletter
Social Action Committee Meeting
Sunday, September 19, After Plaform
Read Social Action Committee Minutes
Social Action Committee Page
Folk Fridays-- Second Friday of Each Month
Feldenkrais at Ethical
For Members:
Check out this article about our house!
Video Clip of Singing from Boe's honoring event
A letter from Barry and Joanne -- and a photo of Barry floating!
2009-2010 schedule for coffee and greeters.
Photos of our Hiroshima Day Observance, August 8, 2009
Singing at Peace Day/Hiroshima Observance, August 8, 2009
Phyllis Ehrenfeld, friend of the Essex Society
and frequent platform speaker, died on July 14th, 2009.
See an obituary here.
We're in the news! Click here!
See photo of our Pete Seeger Event!Upcoming Events
Snapshots
More from our 2008-2009 Platforms:
Christopher Geissler: Lessons from a Unique
Religious Hybrid in Ancient China
For more, see last year's platforms.
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/
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
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
Donations to Ethical Culture accepted
Phone 973-763-1905
Email: ethicalessex@netscape.com
Statement on Religious Identity
of Ethical Culture Fall 2008
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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,
Graduation parties, etc. Call 973-763-1905
Latest Social Action Committee Minutes
Special Page on Doing Publicity for Your Event
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.
Latest Ethical Action Report
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Ethical Action Report From the AEU: Information
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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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Have you seen the new and improved website of the American Ethical Union? Click here.
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Current Issue of our Newsletter (In order to read this, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded free if you click here.)
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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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Learn more about Ethical Culture!
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Our Building Is a Peace Site. Read more here.
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Ethical Culture Society of Essex County, call 973-763-1905
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Email: ethicalessex@netscape.com
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