Building Bridges

Congregation Beth Israel’s

Men’s Club and Social Action Committee

present

Carol Rogoff Hallstrom

“The Beloved Community: African-Americans,

Jews and the Civil Rights Struggle”

Ms. Hallstrom began her career as a Field Secretary

with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating

Committee (SNCC) in southwest Mississippi during

the civil rights movement in the 1960s, in the struggle

to end Jim Crow and discriminatory, segregationist

practices. She will share some of her experiences of

the Civil Rights struggle, and insights gained into the

politicized dynamics of human identity and

relationship.

Sunday June 13 at 10:15 am

Epicurean Matzah Brei brunch ($5/person)

Carol Rogoff Hallstrom is a public interest attorney and community activist who

has worked in the fields of civil rights, police-community relations, immigration,

human relations and diversity education/training for more than 30 years as a notfor-

profit organization executive. During the past 10 years Ms. Hallstrom was in

federal service as a Community Relations Officer with the US Dept of Justice,

Immigration & Naturalization Service and then with the Dept of Homeland

Security, US Citizenship & Immigration Services, from which she retired in 2009.

RSVP please for brunch to Lee Avishai, Beth Israel office, at 252-8431