Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island

Sunday School alum Ryan Dobrin has directed this play which can be viewed on zoom from April 8 through April 19.

In February, Daniel Teehan gave a talk on his work as a prison organizer. Here is a link to his article that appears in Current Affairs. https://www.currentaffairs.org//inside-the-dangerous-world

THE ETHICAL HUMANIST SOCIETY OF LONG ISLAND Sunday, April 4th at 11:00 am SUNDAY PLATFORM ... Cheryl Wills Emancipation!: The Sandy & Emma Wills Story To join click on this Zoom link or cut and paste into your browser: https://zoom.us/j/980426852 Meeting ID: 980 426 852 Or phone in at: (929) 436-2866 Platform begins at 11:00, please try to join by 10:55 CHERYL WILLS is an Emmy award-winning television personality for Spectrum News' flagship national news network, New York 1 News, headquartered in New York City. Cheryl Wills has been with NY1 News since its launch in 1992 and is one of the station's most recognizable journalists for breaking news and special coverage. Cheryl is the only journalist in the network's 25+ year history to conduct a sitdown interview with The Secretary General of The United Nations: His Excellency Ban Ki-moon. She has also interviewed a sitting President: Nobel Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. Cheryl's groundbreaking interviews earned her a prestigious Medal of Excellence from The United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA). Cheryl is the acclaimed author of four books about her family's legacy during The Civil War: Die Free (2010), The Emancipation of Grandpa Sandy Wills (2015), Emancipated: My Family's Fight for Freedom (2017), EMMA (2020) and Isn't Her Grace Amazing: 25 Women Who Changed Gospel (2021-Harper Collins). On March 25, 2011, Cheryl Wills made history as the first journalist invited to speak at the United Nations General Assembly Hall for The International Remembrance of Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade where she read passages from her book, Die Free which was broadcast live around the world on UNTV. Additionally, Cheryl has also touched the lives of tens of thousands of students across the country by reminding them about the importance of honoring family legacies. Cheryl is most proud to be the Commander and Lifetime Descendant Member of the New York Chapter of the Sons and Daughters of the United States Colored Troops - a national organization of Civil War descendants who raise awareness about black soldiers who served during The Civil War. She is a graduate of the prestigious S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Please click to access the program and lyrics to the community song: Sunday Platform Program - April 4th, 2021

Come and Help! A message from Pat Spencer and Ethical Friends of Children Due to COVID some of the EFOC volunteers no longer participate in the program, leaving only Jim and me volunteering. We could really need your help in sorting through the clothing and filling orders, especially this coming Wednesday, April 7 from 10-1pm, I will be the only volunteer! ... From a safety/health point of view: we do not interact with the general population but leave clothing for them to pick up later in the day. Thank you for your consideration of helping with this need. In the future if you might be available to volunteer with EFOC, but not on a Wednesday morning, we could work with you when a good time would be. Feel free to tell your friends and family of our program and need. THANKS Pat Spencer 516-603-1940

Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island PUBLIC FORUM ETHICAL ISSUES IN OUR TIMES... Please join Dr. David Sprintzen for the April installment of the Ethical Society's exploration of "Ethical Issues in Our Times" via Zoom. Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:00 PM This Month's Topic: Anti-Racism: Moral Imperative or Partisan Program? What is meant by Anti-Racism? What are its cultural presuppositions? What is the practical program? What are it's social and personal consequences? Join us in discussing this pressing social issue Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:00 - 9:00 pm on Zoom To join Zoom Meeting click on the link or cut and paste to your web browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/896985586 Let us know if you will join us, call the EHS office at 516-741-7304 or email: [email protected] Now a joint product of the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island and the Humanists of Long Island

Here’s some news from Massachusetts about Emily Lewis and Maggie Nowinski After many years as an active member of EHSLI Emily moved with her daughter Maggie to Amherst, MA. Emily now lives at Treehouse Community in Easthampton, MA. Treehouse is an intentional community of families with foster, adoptive, and birth families and elders who focus on the well-being of the children primarily, and also on the quality of life for all community members. Recently Emily was profiled th...rough an interview in the Treehouse Community Newsletter. The article asked Emily about highlights in her life, and Emily included EHS as being one, and an excerpt of this is just a few lines down. Following the excerpt is a description of what Maggie has been up to as an artist. Maggie will be a be back at EHSLI in June as a guest speaker. Maggie lives with her husband Scot and two dogs, Maybelle and Loretta, in their home in Easthampton. (from the Treehouse newsletter) The Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island became a big part of my life because I found like-minded people. As a religious organization, its primary focus is bringing out the best in ourselves and others, believing that each of us has a moral responsibility to help reduce suffering, enhance the quality of life, and contribute to the well-being of society. I met my second husband [Harry Allen] at EHS and we founded a group called Friends for the Homeless [now Ethical Friends of Children] which focused on providing for children by collecting, collating, and delivering clothing and items such as cribs and blankets that were needed by families for their youngsters. We were allotted a room at EHS where we kept all the items. Of particular delight in doing this work was meeting the families, talking about our work to community groups, and the satisfaction that we were helping. We were interviewed about Friends for the Homeless by a reporter and photographer from Long Island Newsday. (Emily notes that subsequent to the printing of this article, she found it rewarding that people at Treehouse have asked about EHS.) About Maggie Nowinski: An interdisciplinary artist, curator, and arts educator, Maggie Nowinski will be joining EHS in June to speak about her own practice as an artist, her choice to teach as an adjunct professor and to delve into what motivates her personally and politically in both capacities. Maggie is an EHS Sunday school graduate who attended regularly until she moved to Amherst MA, with her mother, Emily Lewis, at the age of 13 in the 1980's. She is grateful for how the foundational values instilled in her through EHS continue to inform and support her path today. Her website is http://www.maggienowinski.org/

Please join The Long Island Media Task Force in cooperation with the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island, for a live Zoom presentation on:... DECONSTRUCTING FAKE NEWS Russell Myers, Long Island Media Task Force Thursday, October 29, 2020 7:00-8:30 p.m. We have witnessed an explosion of "fake news" in recent years. Coming at us from all sides, it is hard to know what to believe and act upon, and what to reject. But what exactly is "fake news"? Why is it important? Where does it come from? How and why is it created? Is there anything we can we do to protect ourselves from it? To join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87582320437 Meeting ID: 875 8232 0437 Passcode: 481717 Or phone in: +1 646 558 8656 US (New Yor

Join member Judy Rosemarin every Tuesday from 11:00 am - 12:00 pm for a weekly meditation on Zoom. Learn different ways to meditate and enjoy doing it with others. We will begin on Tuesday, October 27th 11:00 am... If you would like to join us, please register by emailing the office at [email protected] and we will send you the Zoom link.

Sunday, October 25th at 11:00 am Ross Outten A Humanist response to the problem of hunger To join click on this Zoom link or cut and paste into your browser: https://zoom.us/j/980426852... Or phone in at: (929) 436-2866. Meeting ID: 980 426 852 Meeting starts at 11:00, please try to join by 10:55. Ross will discuss his Ethical upbringing and how the lessons he learned as a young man played out in his own personal and professional journeys, and how they continue to guide him as he works with a diverse group of people, through some very challenging times, to serve basic human needs in our community. The Friendship Center fosters hope and dignity in our community through access to food, vital resources, and critical social services. Our service area includes the neighborhoods of North Park, Albany Park, Lincoln Square, Ravenswood, and West Ridge all in northwest Chicago. For more information, visit www.friendshipcenterchicago.org Ross is the Director of Development for The Friendship Center, a food pantry in Chicago. Previously, he spent two years abroad training in classical French cuisine and holds a culinary arts degree from Le Cordon Bleu London. He has worked in the corporate world, though his more recent restaurant experience was with small, independent restaurants including as a sole proprietor for five years of a European cafe near his home on Chicago’s north side. Now he is devoting himself to the food pantry, seeking funds to keep the place running and occasionally cooking for the guests. Ross certainly will talk about the influence EHSLI has had upon his life and why he now devotes himself to making sure that people who need food have something good to eat. Please click to access the program and lyrics to the community song: Sunday Platform Program-October 25, 2020

Ethical Issues in Our Times monthly forum "After The Voting: Now What?!! Thursday, November 5th, 7 to 9pm on zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/896985586 To register, call the EHS office, 516-741-7304. ... Election Day has finally come and gone, but the profound distrust and divisions that are rending US society continue unabated. What sense do we make of what has happened, is happening, and will happen? Let us explore these issues together.

What's Happening at EHS DISCUSSION GROUP ... On Thursday, October 22nd at 1:00 we will hold a digital discussion group with Leader Richard Koral on the Zoom application. To Join Zoom meeting: https://zoom.us/j/377400022 Meeting ID: 377 400 022 Phone in: (929) 436-2866

Sunday, October 16 qt 11 am Mike Franch Having Faith in Not Knowing Back when I was still a theist, I left a religious service when it struck me as impious to claim to know God’s schedule. And wasn’t it a little cheeky for anyone to claim to know what God wanted? In our own way, I find that my fellow humanists, agnostics, and atheists sometimes share this trait of claiming to know more than we can know. Whether there is a God or gods or not, I am convinced that neither you no...r I are omniscient. Our challenge is to lead a committed life while affirming we don’t have and we don’t need all the answers. Dr. Michael S. Franch is an Ethical Culture Leader and an active member of the National Leaders Council of the American Ethical Union. He served as Leader of the Baltimore Ethical Society from 1975-1984 and is currently affiliate minister at the First Unitarian Church, Baltimore. A historian by training, he has taught history at a number of colleges. Until his 2007 retirement, worked in health policy at the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Mike is also a storyteller, English country dancer, concertina player, and urban bicyclist. Out of caution for the spread of COVID-19 we continue to hold our Sunday Platforms online via zoom. To join click on this Zoom link or cut and paste into your browser: https://zoom.us/j/980426852 Or phone in at: (929) 436-2866. Meeting ID: 980 426 852 Meeting starts at 11:00, please try to join by 10:55.

PHONE BANKING If you are interested in taking action and encouraging everyone to vote, consider joining a Phone Banking Campaign. Here is a direct way we can help register, educate, and empower new voters by making calls to areas in the United States where people might be disenfranchised, unregistered or just do not know how to go about becoming part of the voting process. Member Lorraine Zeller-Agostino is happy to give you more information on the phone banking campaign she... is involved with: [email protected] Member Deborah Strube has been phone/text banking via You Can Vote, which is a non-partisan phone banking campaign: https://www.youcanvote.org/training

DISCUSSION GROUP with Leader Richard Koral Thursday, October 15th at 1:00 We will hold a digital discussion group with Leader Richard Koral on the Zoom application.... This week's topic: "Is this a way to run a court? How can the Supreme Court be improved?" To Join Zoom meeting: https://zoom.us/j/377400022 Meeting ID: 377 400 022 Phone in: (929) 436-2866

The Influences of an Enslaved Great Grandmother Martin C. Evans October 11 at 11 am To join click on this Zoom link or cut and paste into your browser: ... https://zoom.us/j/980426852 Meeting ID: 980 426 852 Or phone in at: (929) 436-2866 I will speak about the influence of my great grandmother, Elizabeth Carter Jones, who was born enslaved during the Civil War, helped raise my mother, and who was an activist with early black empowerment organizations - the National Association of Colored Women among them - that helped erect the scaffolding which allowed America's black peasantry to climb into today's middle class. My 39-year career as a journalist began in 1981, when I began writing for the Baltimore Afro-American, an historic newspaper whose coverage was primarily focused on the impacts of white supremacy and efforts to overcome injustices endured by the Black community. I have since written for a number of newspapers, including the Baltimore Sun, where I covered City Hall, and The Orange County Register, where I primarily wrote about the largest Vietnamese community outside of Vietnam, and about the rise of Pacific Rim economies. I left Newsday in 2019 after a 23-year tenure during which I covered race and ethnicity on Long Island, Barack Obama's 2008 primary campaign, and veterans issues flowing from war in Iraq and Afghanistan. I was the second of seven children born to a pair of New York City librarians who joined a community of mostly socially-active Jews who spent summers living together in rural Connecticut. I live in Forest Hills with an immigrant German wife and a bi-racial son, and typically spend several weeks each year in Euro

IN MEMORIUM: Carol Pincus Memorial Service to be held Sunday October 18th at 2:00 pm online... Leader Richard Koral will officiate an online memorial service for long-time member Carol Pincus, who died last month from a stroke. Her son Josh and daughter-in-law Caroline would like to invite all who knew Carol to please join in on Sunday, October 18th at 2:00 pm on Zoom. Instructions to join the service will be sent out via email. If you would like to attend, please contact the office. If you would like to say a few words, Josh would greatly appreciate it. Please email the office at: [email protected] or call us at 516-741-7304 and we will put you in touch with Richard.

Join Leader Richard Koral for our weekly digital discussion group on the Zoom Application This week's topic: October surprise - what more could possibly happen before the election? When: Thursday, October 8th at 1:00pm ... To Join Zoom meeting: https://zoom.us/j/377400022 Meeting ID: 377 400 022 Phone in: (929) 436-2866

Please join us Sunday, October 4th at 12:00 (immediately following the Judy Rosemarin's talk -- see below) for a Zoom meet and greet with our new Social Action Coordinator Sonia Aurora... Sonia will tell us a little about herself and explain how she plans on meeting the social action needs of our members. Please plan on joining us and welcoming Sonia to our society.

Sunday, October 4 at 11 am "IF: The Big Little Word and Life Link" Presented by Judy Rosemarin Judy’s talk explores how we can use the word "IF" to enhance or restrict our lives and how expanding our awareness of how we live each moment, can be viewed and reviewed with increased potential, understanding and gratitude.... Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/980426852 Or phone in at: (929) 436-2866 Meeting ID: 980 426 852 Judy Rosemarin, MS, MSW, co-author of Becoming An Exceptional Executive Coach, has been a proud member of the Ethical Humanist Society for 20 years. She was the original CareerPlus weekly columnist for the New York Post where she wrote about effective career management. Judy was the first person to teach Executive Coaching in New York City, at NYU and has also taught at Baruch College . Currently a member of the faculty at Osher Life Long Learning Ringling College Sarasota Florida, Judy teaches classes in Happiness and Effective Listening. She is also an actor, having her first role directed by the late Ken Schwartzaman of the Ethical Humanist Society.

ETHICAL ISSUES IN OUR TIMES Please join Dr. David Sprintzen on Thursday, October 1 at 7:00 pm for our monthly series of public discussions on "Ethical Issues in Our Times" via Zoom. This Month's Topic: "Where Can We Draw Strength In This Time Of Adversity?" An invitation to share your experiences and hopes and your sources of resilience.... To join Zoom Meeting click on the link or cut and paste to your web browser: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/896985586 Let us know if you will attend. To register, call the EHS office: 516-741-7304 or email: [email protected] Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island 516-741-7304 [email protected] www.ehsli.org See what's happening on our social sites: Facebook Twitter Pinterest