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Social Justice Scholar-in-Residence Shabbat

Saturday, 30 May, 2015 12 Sivan 5775

10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

The Social Justice Advocacy Committee (SJAC) is pleased to announce that on the May 30 Shabbat, Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, the Social Justice Scholar-In-Residence for 2014-2015, will offer her final dvar on:

Religious Freedom, Equality, and the Icing on the Cake

Freedom of religion and equality are both fundamental human ‎rights. But what happens when these rights conflict—when, for ‎example, a person's religious beliefs compel them to refuse ‎service to a gay person (e.g., a bakery owner who refuses to ‎bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage)? What happens ‎if the positions are reversed, and a religious person asks a ‎bakery to make a cake expressing a religious homophobic ‎sentiment? Real cases about bakeries, bed-and-breakfasts, ‎marriage commissioners, and print shops have arisen in recent ‎years in Canada and the U.S. Is there a conceptual way to ‎resolve the issues? Do all the positions deserve the same ‎respect? And what do we do when intolerance of intolerance ‎may be its own disguised form of bigotry? Noa Mendelsohn ‎Aviv, Darchei Noam’s Social Justice Scholar-in-Residence for ‎‎2014–2015, will present a d’var and lead a post-Kiddush ‎discussion on this topic.

Noa Mendelsohn Aviv, the Director of the Equality Program of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA), has been active in the areas of law, civil and human rights for over 15 years in both Israel and Canada. Before taking up her current post she worked for the Association of Civil Rights In Israel (ACRI). She joined the CCLA in 2002. As the Director of the CCLA’s Equality Program, she works on such issues as protections for migrants and refugees; healthcare; LGBTQ rights; race and gender issues; mental health and prisons. Noa is a graduate of York University (B.A.) and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (LL.B., LL.M.) and wasalled to the Israeli Bar in 1998.

** The Social Justice Advocacy Committee Will Sponsor Kiddush Desserts

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