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Erev Shabbat Service Followed by Speaker Orly Erez-Likhovski

Friday, September 13, 2024 10 Elul 5784

6:30 PM - 8:00 PMAlbers Chapel & Livestream

Erev Shabbat Service with Orly Erez-Likhovski, Adv. 
Friday, September 13, 6:30pm, Albers Chapel & Livestream

Join us for Shabbat Service followed by speaker Orly Erez-Likhovski, Adv., Executive Director of the Israel Religious Action Center, which has been a key player in the pro-democracy protest during 2023. 

Orly Erez-Likhovski graduated from the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. After clerking at the Israeli Supreme Court, she studied for a Master's degree in Law at Columbia University, New York, focusing on human rights. Orly is a member of both the Israeli and the New York Bar. 

Orly has been working as an attorney at the Israel Religious Action Center of the Reform Movement in Israel since 2004. She was the director of the legal department of IRAC between 2014 - 2021. In this capacity, she led the legal struggle against discrimination on the basis of religious affiliation, gender segregation in the public sphere and racial incitement. Orly has led to significant legal achievements such as abolishing gender segregation on public buses, breaking the Orthodox monopoly regarding the funding of salaries of Rabbis, disqualifying racist candidates from running for the Knesset and recognizing the rights of LGBTQ couples to adopt children in Israel. 

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