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Vol. 35, No. 3
Adar-Nisan 5773
March 2013
Rabbi Sherre Hirsch Featured Speaker at
Federation’s15th Annual Spring Lecture
The 15th Annual Women’s
Spring Leeture, presented by the
Women’s Division of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Charlotte,
will take plaee Thursday, Mareh
14, at Temple Beth El. The guest
speaker is Rabbi Sherre Flirseh,
well known as the “relationship
rabbi” and author of We Plan, God
Laughs: What to Do When Life
Hits You Over the Head.
The Spring Leeture is the
Women’s Division largest eam-
paign and outreaeh event. “We are
so exeited about the Spring Lee
ture beeause it’s always a great
evening,” said eo-ehairs Randi
Lan and Staeey Sehanzlin. “This
year there are some wonderful
surprises in store for our guests.”
Serving on the Spring Leeture
Committee with Randi and Staeey
are Talli Dippold, Sara Kulbersh,
Mallory Miller, Elaine Moody,
Debbie Porter, Jenny Rosenthal,
and Stephanie Townsend.
The Federation appreeiates the
generous support of the Spring
Leeture eorporate sponsors:
Ditesheim Cosmetie Surgery,
Melanie Rowe Catering, and
North Carolina Bank and Trust.
Additional sponsors are Eriea
Coblenz and Gabi Goreliek, Cre
ative Events, Jill Flalverstam and
Randi Lan, Mallory and Kevin
Miller, REACFl, and Dr. Aviva
Stein, Charlotte OB/GYN.
Born in Dayton, Ohio and
raised in Southern California,
Rabbi Sherre Flirseh was a high
sehool eheerleader and an aeeom-
plished eollege tennis player
headed to medieal sehool when,
driven by a desire to deepen her
understanding of her faith, she
began studying at the Jewish The-
ologieal Seminary.
After a detour through Asia,
where she studied eastern philos
ophy, Rabbi Flirseh was ordained
in 1998. She spent the next eight
years as the first woman rabbi at
Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, the
largest Conservative synagogue in
the western U.S. It was during her
tenure at Temple Sinai that Rabbi
Hirseh first stepped out from be
hind the formal podium to move
among the eongregation, building
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ing her intimate and friendly story
with people in all kinds of “pul
pits,” from “The Today Show” to
a small Baptist ehureh in Ala
bama. She has served as a regular
guest on “Naomi’s New Morn
ing,” “The Tyra Banks Show,”
and PBS’ “Thirty Good Minutes.”
Widely known as the “relationship
rabbi,” she is the go-to person for
outlets as diverse as ABC News,
Joan Hamburg, and Telepietures
Produetions. Rabbi Hirseh also
serves as the spiritual life eonsult-
ant and leeturer for the Canyon
Raneh Companies in Arizona and
Massaehusetts.
Her first book. We Plan, God
Laughs: What to Do When Life
Hits You Over the Head was pub
lished in April 2008. The book re-
fieets a theme in Hirseh’s own life
and she expertly guides readers
through a spiritual and introspee-
tive journey toward reaehing their
divine potential. Her seeond book
will be published by Random
House in the Spring of 2013.
The evening will begin with
dinner at 6:15 PM in the David
Silverman Soeial Hall at Temple
Beth El and the leeture will take
plaee at 8 PM in the Blumenthal
Sanetuary. A dessert reeeption and
book signing will follow the pro
gram.
Spring Leeture tiekets are $40
for the dinner and leeture, or $ 18
for the leeture and dessert only. A
minimum pledge of $50 from
eaeh woman attending the Spring
Leeture will assist us in our efforts
to raise $3,300,000 for our 2013
Annual Campaign. The money
raised by the Federation Annual
Campaign enables the Jewish
Federation to make a differenee
everyday in the lives of millions
of people in Charlotte, in Israel,
and in seventy eountries around
the world. The eampaign dollars
provide finaneial support for pro
grams that feed the hungry, eare
for the elderly, edueate the young,
provide assistanee for the trou
bled, and intervene on behalf of
families in distress who are unable
to meet their basie needs.
Rabbi Sherre Hirsch
For more information or to
purehase tiekets, please visit the
Federation website at www.jew-
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