Join Sara Glass* and your Beth Torah community to learn about the life’s work of Jewish lawyer and civil rights activist Sidney Willens.
Willens, who also happens to be Sara’s grandfather, spent his life in Kansas City as an attorney and activist dedicated to making the world a better place. What can we learn from him about how to make a difference here and now?
Dividing Lines is a tour of the history of residential segregation and its far-reaching impacts. Residential segregation and the racial wealth gap didn't just happen through some automatic human instinct or by chance. Individual actions in tandem with state and federal policies created our current reality. By highlighting the history of segregation in Kansas City, Dividing Lines sheds light on the governmental policies and individual actions which decimated Black neighborhoods all over the United States. (from the jocolibrary.org website)
Schedule:
Light breakfast 11:00 a.m. Film Screening 11:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.
Q&A after film 12:10-12:30 p.m.
Panelists: Rabbi Mark Levin, Son of Sid Mark Willens, Granddaughter of Sid Sara Glass, & Lora McDonald from the More2 movement.
Leave for tour in caravan 12:30-2:00 p.m. (Tour begins at Shawnee Mission East)
Return to Beth Torah 2:30 p.m.
Carpooling options are available. Email sglass@beth-torah.org with questions.