October 11, 2023
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
October 11, 2023The War Memorial, Newton City Hall
1000 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, MA 02459
Join us in person or online for an important discussion, the first in a series, about the escalation of hate in our community and how to address it by forming alliances of understanding and action.
Speakers include Mayor Ruthanne Fuller, Mayor, City of Newton; Rabbi Keith Stern, Chair, Newton Human Rights Commission; Rabbi Jonah Steinberg, Regional Director, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) New England; Marion Ryan, Middlesex County District Attorney; John Carmichael, Newton Chief of Police; George McMains, Superintendent Newton Police Department; Ruth Balser, Representative Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Rabbi Ron Fish, ADL, Northeast Division Director of Antisemitism Advocacy and Education.
Hatred is already in our schools and workplaces. We are not immune. It impacts all of us, but working together we can fight it.
We encourage attendance in person. Should you not be able to attend in person, please feel free to join via secure webinar. Passcode: 491653
Sponsored by the City of Newton, the Newton Human Rights Commission, the Harmony Foundation, and the Temple Reyim and Temple Emanuel ADL Kulanu Groups
First They Came
First they came for the Communists, And I did not speak out, Because I was not a Communist,
Then they came for the Socialists, And I did not speak out, Because I was not a Socialist,
Then they came for the trade unionists, And I did not speak out, Because I was not a trade unionist,
Then they came for the Jews, And I did not speak out, Because I was not a Jew,
Then they came for me, And there was no one left, To speak out for me.
— Pastor Martin Niemoller