The Stan Simrin Memorial Education Fund presents

A Weekend Shabbaton with

Rabbi Lee Bycel

Friday, June 3

6:00 pm Shabbat dinner with Lee and Judy Bycel

Catered by Café Med $25

7:30 pm Shabbat Service

Rabbi Bycel will speak on “The Jew as Global Citizen: Our responsibility to ourselves; to others.”

Saturday, June 4

10:00 am Morning session

Torah Study with Rabbi Bycel and Rabbi Rosenstein

12:00 pm Lunch and Learn

Lunch provided for registered attendees

2:00 pm Afternoon session

“Shaping a Meaningful and Sacred Life: The insights of Abraham Joshua Heschel”

6:00 pm Dinner

Dinner provided for registered attendees

Havdalah

Sunday, June 5

10:00 am Q&A with Rabbi Bycel and Rabbi Rosenstein

11:00 am Leadership session with the TBE Board

This will be a provocative, entertaining program, which will be free to everyone who participates (with the exception of the catered dinner on Friday Shabbat Evening, which is $25). Saturday’s lunch and dinner is free to those who sign up in advance and spend the day.

It is imperative that we have numbers, so please contact Sonia(871-7380 home | 742-9026 cell) or Dorise (322-6707) as soon as possible to register for the weekend.

Lee Bycel was born in Los Angeles and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in Philosophy. He earned his doctorate from the Claremont School of Theology. For 15 years, he was Dean of the Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion, in Los Angeles, where he was Senior Academic and Administrative Officer of the campus and Director of the Rabbinic School. He was Assistant Professor of Leadership and Applied Theology while also serving as the Smither Visiting Professor of World Religions at the Claremont School of Theology. He served as the Director of Brandeis Bardin Institute of Jewish Learning for several years.

Lee is the Senior Moderator of leadership Seminars at The Aspen Institute and at the Federal Executive Institute. He has facilitated many workshops on leadership issues, ethics and strategy for a variety of groups, addressing the US Presidential Scholars in Washington, DC, on the subject of Leadership and Ethics for the past decade. In the fall of 2005, he participated in the inaugural meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.

As a social justice advocate deeply committed to humanitarian issues, he was Executive Director, Western Region, of American Jewish World Service (AJWS), an international development organization dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease. He has made trips to Darfur, Chad, Rwanda, and is in the Sudan as you read this.

He has served as President of the County of Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations and has won the National Conference of Community and Justice Humanitarian Award.

One of his latest positions was as Executive Director of the Robert Redford Center, whose mission is to collaborate with diverse leaders and artists in cultivating creative, action-based solutions to some of today’s most compelling civic, environmental and social challenges.