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Date(s) - 02/22/2023
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Wisdom Class is our Kabbalah study group wherein Rabbi Marc, along with special guest rabbis, bring us the wisdom that lives within the Torah and other Holy texts in weekly 90-minute classes. Participants are guided to understand how to apply these teachings to daily life in the 21st Century, bringing holiness into the mundane.
Tonight’s last class on “Our Response to Anti-Semitism” is with Rabbi Marc and special guest Brandon Schorsch.
Members receive ZOOM links via email. Non-members, please email TAOadmin@TAOcenter.net for Zoom details.
About Brandon Schorsch
Brandon joined Jewish Community Action in January 2020 after several years of working in progressive issues and electoral politics in the Twin Cities. Having seen multiple childhood friends become radicalized online, Brandon has been researching hate for many years prior to working on JCA’s Combating Antisemitism and White Nationalism campaign. Since 2020, much of Brandon’s work has been focused on the Communities Combating Hate coalition, an effort of 16+ organizations pushing for non-carceral policy solutions to address hate. Outside of the coalition he has developed/co-developed numerous trainings examining contemporary antisemitism’s origins, mechanisms, motivations and intersections with other forms of marginalization and oppression.
About Rabbi Marc Labowitz
Rabbi Marc Labowitz is a teacher, lecturer and award-winning composer serving as the Rabbi of TAO – Temple Adath Or, in South Florida since 2002. Rabbi Marc Labowitz’s deepest spiritual practice is to foster a world in which Freedom, Acceptance and Love are the essence of all paths. He endeavors to do this by helping to garner a wise, warm, vibrant, caring Jewish community.
Rabbi Marc Labowitz brings his passionate joyful expression of Judaism, his musical talents, his informative, and deeply spiritual orating, and his forward looking vision to his position as Rabbi of TAO – Temple Adath Or, South Florida Center for Jewish Renewal.
Rabbi Marc Labowitz is a founder of:
- All Fed – Feeding The Homeless and Hungry of South Florida,
- TAO’s Homeward Choir– a soulful outlet for the Homeless contingent in Fort Lauderdale
- Board member of Street Waves a program teaching our inner city youth to swim and surf.
- He is the cofounder of TAO LGBTQ Spirituality Group, the TAO Children’s Jewish Spirituality School, and TAO Spiritual Bereavement.
- The TAO Orchestra and plays alongside family, dear friends and musicians: Rebbetzen Paulina, Galia, Ocean and Kole Kerev Labowitz, Maria Daszkal, Bob Heaton, Esther Levy, Jorge Guzman, Stephanie Mair, Doug Tessler, Zeva Soroker, Carl Schmidt, and Jose Gregorio Hernandez.
Rabbi Marc Labowitz has served as rabbi, keynote lecturer, teacher, officiant and musical performer locally and internationally. He was born into a lineage of rabbis that include his Great-grandfather and namesake, Rabbi Mordechai Rabinovitch of Baltimore Z’l, his grandfather, Rabbi Herschel Leibowitz Z’l, his parents, Rabbi Shoni Labowitz Z’l and Rabbi Phillip Labowitz. Rabbi Marc Labowitz is married to the love of his life Paulina Labowitz, and is the father to their children Galia Nechama, Ocean Ayden, and Kole Kerev Labowitz.
