We can build walls with our neighbors – those across tables, neighborhoods, or borders — or we can melt them away by uncovering our common humanity. Mastering the art of loving our neighbor requires vulnerability and breaking through personal barriers. It requires understanding our neighbor’s pain and advocating to keep them physically and psychologically safe. I hope viewers will use their voices in small and large ways to help those who are vulnerable locally and globally. Judy Schindler is a rabbi, wife, mom, professor, activist, and author.

Rabbi Judy is an innovator… leading the creation of three Telly award-winning social justice documentaries addressing diversity in schools, urban education and affordable housing. In recognition for her pushing boundaries, she was named Charlotte Woman of the Year in 2011 along with many other awards.

She is a professor… teaching courses on diversity and identity in the Hebrew Bible, the Holocaust, and on social justice as the Sklut Professor of Jewish Studies at Queens University of Charlotte.

Rabbi Judy is an activist… directing the Stan Greenspon Center for Peace and Social Justice at Queens, where she inspires advocacy and enables work for justice both on the Queens campus and in the greater Charlotte community.

She is a faith leader… In 2016, she was named Rabbi Emerita of Temple Beth El in Charlotte (the largest synagogue in the Carolinas) after serving as Senior Rabbi from 2003-2016 and as Associate Rabbi from 1998-2003. For nearly two decades, she has been engaged in interfaith work helping with the leadership of Meck Min and the Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice.

She is a writer… having contributed chapters and articles to nearly a dozen books and recently co-authoring a book on recharging congregations through civic engagement and moving the religious community from volunteerism to advocacy. She was a 2017-2018 contributing columnist to the Charlotte Observer.

Rabbi Judy is a student who loves to learn. She is enrolled in the Doctor of Hebrew Letters program at the Hebrew Union College where she received her master’s in 1993 and was ordained in 1995.

Judy is a wife and a mom… who loves watching her two teenage sons play sports and traveling with her husband, Chip, to whom she has been married for almost 20 years. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at [ Ссылка ]

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