EMU Center for Jewish Studies Third Annual Art and Mary Schuman Lecture: Tamar Manasseh, “An African-American Jewish Mother Repairing Cracks in Our Communities”

The EMU Center for Jewish Studies Presents

The Third Annual Art and Mary Schuman Lecture

Tamar Manasseh, “An African-American Jewish Mother Repairing Cracks in Our Communities”

Tamar Manasseh, an African-American Jewish mother of two teenagers, is Founder and Director of “Mothers and Men Against Senseless Killings” (MASK), an organization fighting gun violence on the streets of Chicago since 2015. She is subject of features by NBC News, the PBS Newshour, the New York Times, the Forward, and a full-length documentary, They Ain’t Ready for Me. She is also, in what Rabbi Capers Funnye has described it as “a watershed moment” for the Israelite community,” the first woman ordained to the rabbinate at Chicago’s Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation.

This event is co-sponsored by: the Eastern Michigan University MLK, Jr. Planning Committee; Hillel at Eastern Michigan University; the Temple Beth Emeth; and the Beth Israel Congregation.

Admission is free.