Pride Shabbat- Congregation Shomrei Emunah

Shomrei celebrates Pride! On the weekend of Montclair Pride, please join us in song and prayer at a joyful musical service incorporating special melodies and themes of LGBTQ+ Pride. This heartfelt service will be co-led by Shomrei student Vi Taft in honor of their b’nai-mitzvah, Rabbi Julie Roth, Student Rabbi Lily Lucey, Shomrei member Debra Caplan, and guest musician Oren Neiman. For their b’nai-mitzvah project, Vi organized a rally in downtown Montclair to raise awareness for trans rights and collected over $3000 for the Trevor Project: https://montclairlocal.news/students-from-montclairs-glenfield-middle-school-raise-2000-to-prevent-lgbtq-suicide/

Guest Speaker during the service: Steven Goldstein, civil rights activist and founder of Garden State Equality
Featured Talk: Standing Up for Judaism by Standing Up for Pride

About Steven Goldstein
American civil rights activist, Steven Goldstein has played a role in the passage of more than 200 civil rights laws as the executive director of state and national social justice organizations and as a senior staff member in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate. He is best known here in New Jersey as the founder of Garden State Equality, where his successful fight to win marriage equality was the subject of an Academy Award-winning documentary and a Hollywood movie in which he was played by the actor Steve Carell. Steven is a graduate of Brandeis, Harvard Kennedy School, Columbia Journalism School, Columbia Law School, and the Academy for Jewish Religion, and is currently a rabbinical student at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.

Congregation Shomrei Emunah
67 Park St.
Montclair, NJ