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Ra members our lunch at #uscj2017 is moved to A707

Attention RA members at #uscj2017 - join us at 1pm in L503 for a rabbis only lunch.

For those who want to catch the whole thread of @RJSchonfeld’s speech- here’s where it starts:https://twitter.com/RabbiAssembly/status/937703170217738240 …

.@RJSchonfeld: ‘These challenges must be faced. Together we can succeed.’ #uscj2017

.@rjschonfeld: ‘Ideology may never overcome our fundamental obligations to one another’s safety and well-being.’ #USCJ2017

.@RJSchonfeld: ‘Legitimate authority includes respectful treatment of opponents’ #uscj2017

.@RJSchonfeld: ‘The rabbis of the Talmud prefer mediation because it involves parties directly coming to a compromise rather than having a judgment imposed upon them by someone else.’ #USCJ2017

.@RJSchonfeld: ‘Insensitivity to the holder of a contrary belief is deemed extremely serious’ #uscj2017

.@rjschonfeld: 'Judaism has much to say about the time-honored practices of mediation of conflict & building of productive, interdependent and supportive communities.' #uscj2017

.@rjschonfeld about @RevAdamHamilton: 'His goal is to make everyone in the room feel that he respects their point of view and finds it defensible through the lens of their shared tradition.’ #uscj2017

.@rjschonfeld quoting  @RevAdamHamilton: 'Everyone is liberal compared to someone else, everyone is conservative compared to someone else. #uscj2017

.@rjschonfeld: 'If you are conservative without being a liberal, you are stuck, if you are liberal without being conservative you out there drifting.’ end quote from@RevAdamHamilton #uscj2017

.@rjschonfeld: 'to be conservative means that you recognize there are some things that are so important that you don’t cast them aside because they are no longer popular or in style.’ #uscj2017

.@rjschonfeld: ' To be liberal means to be open to reform, new ideas, generous, who doesn’t want to be that?’ #uscj2017

.@rjschonfeld quoting @revadamhamilton: 'If you are a conservative, liberal is about the worst thing you could call somebody.  And to a liberal “conservative” is the worst thing you could call them.’ #USCJ2017

.@jrschonfeld: 'The Methodist Church is considered by some to be the most evenly divided denomination of American Christianity’ #USCJ2017