12/5/2023 0 Comments Blind jewish boy song bar mitzvah![]() ![]() The act of civil disobedience was carefully planned. They chose TASS, rather than a different location, because it was a well-known Soviet institution but was more accessible than other, high-security, diplomatic offices. Several people turned to my father and urged him to bring this issue to the attention of the Jewish community and the media.Ī group of five rabbis – my father, two other Conservative rabbis, a Reform rabbi and an Orthodox rabbi (Avi Weiss) – decided to commit an act of non-violent, civil disobedience and force their way into the headquarters of the TASS Soviet Telegraphic (News) Agency in New York. In the early 1980s, both the establishment and grassroots organizations felt it was important to draw attention to the plight of Soviet Jews within the Jewish community, the mass media and the international community. Middle East, gaining the reputation as a young rabbi and activist who could serve as a link between activist circles and the established Jewish community. In this capacity, my father organized a successful, NY-wide conference on Israel and the The congregation was relatively small with 300 or so families. I was born in 1979 – the very same week that my then 27 year old father started working as the rabbi at a Conservative synagogue in Bethpage, ![]() I, therefore, asked my parents to help supplement my own memories with factual information prior to this interview in order to enable me to present as full a picture as possible. The stories I am about to tell are from the 1980s when I was still a young child. This account is more about parents' activism than my own. As far back as I can remember, my family was always very involved in Jewish communal life – both locally and globally. My mother, Rachel Ginsburg, works as a social worker and as a Jewish educator in the community. My father, Bruce Ginsburg, is a Conservative rabbi. I was born into a Jewish, Zionist family in I completed my BA in International Relations at Columbia University in New York and my MA in Jewish Education at the I made Aliyah approximately six years ago in February 2002 and currently work in the Education Department of the Jewish Agency, as a Senior Advisor to the Director of the Department. ![]()
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