Kulanu Distribution

With the help of a grant from Eastern PA PFLAG, PA Diversity Network Boardmember Adrian Shanker developed a plan to distribute Rabbi Richard Address’s recently edited, expanded and updated version of Kulanu, a 500 page manual on GLBT inclusion in Reform Judaism to Jewish congregations and communal organizations in the Lehigh Valley and Berks County. This new expansion, for the first time, includes resources for the trans community - including a blessing for a gender reassignment surgery and coming out blessings for the trans community.

In late October, Adrian Shanker and PDN Executive Director Liz Bradbury visited several of the congregations and organizations to drop off the books. Adrian will be distributing the books to congregations and organizations in Berks county in early November, 2007.

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(Photos by Liz Bradbury)

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Hannah Woodward, Patti Mittleman & Joe Grinenko with Adrian at Muhlenberg College Hillel

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With Judy Murman, Executive Director of Keneseth Israel in Allentown

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Rabbi Barbara Goldman Wartell of LV Jewish Federation with Adrian Shanker

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With Rabbi Alan Juda at Brith Shalom, Bethlehem