ARZA Canada is pleased to sponsor Yair Lootsteen at Temple Anshe Sholom Breakfast Club this Sunday morning. He is a very engaging and dynamic leader of the Reform Movement in Israel.
His Topic will be:
"The Role of the Reform Movement in Securing Israel's Democratic and Pluralistic Future."
Date: Sunday December 1, 2013
Time: Breakfast at 10:15 am. Lecture at 11:00 am
Place: Temple Anshe Sholom
Yair Lootsteen is currently the President of Kehilat Kol Haneshama, the largest Reform synagogue in Jerusalem, and in Israel. Born in London, England, Yair grew up in Toronto, Ontario. He made aliyah in 1979 and has since resided in Jerusalem. A lawyer, Yair served in the IDF's Military Advocate General Corps for 24 years, retiring in 2007 with the rank of Colonel. He held several challenging positions during his military career, the last being that of the Legal Advisor to the IDF in Judea and Samaria. In 1999-2000 he spent a year in the US Army's Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps, in Charlottesville, Va. Since his retirement from the IDF, Yair has invested much of his time on issues relating to Jewish pluralism in Jerusalem. He is also a regular columnist for the Canadian Jewish News. He is married to Hanna and they have two children, Naomi and Natan
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Chag Chanukkah Sameach
Les Rothschild
President
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