Honoring Rabbi Sid Schwarz & His Visionary Leadership
Honoring Rabbi Sid Schwarz & His Visionary Leadership
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Throughout his rabbinic career, Rabbi Sid has founded and developed an array of organizations and programs that have touched the lives of thousands of Jews. Sid’s passions include social justice, human rights and the creation of spiritually deep, communities of meaning. To each successive entrepreneurial venture, Sid has brought his commitment to empowerment, innovation and leadership development.
Among Rabbi Sid’s most notable accomplishments are:
- Founding Rabbi of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation (Bethesda, MD)
- Founder and President of PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values
- Creator and Director of the Inter-denominational Rabbinical Student Retreats, co-sponsored by eleven seminaries and boasting over 700 alumni
- Creator and Rabbinic Advisor to the Adat Shalom Haiti Project, which adopted and supports a K-8 Christian school in Leogane, Haiti
- Founding Chair of the Greater Washington Forum on Israeli Arab Issues
- Founder and International Director of the Rene Cassin Human Rights Fellowship with hubs in New York, London and Jerusalem
- Founder and Director of Kenissa: Communities of Meaning Network
- Founder and Director of the Clergy Leadership Incubator (CLI) Rabbinic Fellowship
We are inviting you to join us on Tuesday, May 27 at 1 p.m. Eastern on Zoom, to celebrate Sid, recount his accomplishments, and offer gratitude for being part of Rabbi Sid’s vast beit midrash. The program will include remarks from a variety of people who have been part of Sid’s professional endeavors including Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, one of the pre-eminent thinkers and leaders in the Jewish world and also, an important mentor and role model for Sid.
We hope that you can join us. Whether you can or can’t, we invite you to submit an anecdote, a memory or some way that you benefited from being in one of Sid’s programs or mentored by him. You can do so by clicking here. Sid has told us that there is no greater gift than to hear from those of you who were touched by him in some way.