100 Jewish Men

2023-2024

100 Jewish Men is a group of men dedicated to improving themselves and each other as men, fathers, husbands, brothers, sons, friends, and Jews. Through controversial, thought-provoking speakers and small group discussions, we will explore what usually remains unspoken in men’s lives at work and at home. We have an incredible year planned, and we hope you choose to be part of it.

 This year each event is a stand-alone program.  There are no annual fees; you pay per program that you attend. 

March Program

Our March guest is Kevin Lipson, co-founder of the Jewish Advocacy Center, speaking on "The Unprecedented Uptick in Anti-Jewish Violence" 

Wednesday, March 20 | Dinner at 6:30 pm | Program at 7:00 pm

Beth Yeshurun Members:  Program Only - $12 | Dinner & Program - $25

Non-Members: Program Only - $25 | Dinner & Program - $38

REGISTER HERE

Deadline to register:  Monday, March 18 at Noon

More about Kevin:

Kevin Lipson is a partner at Venable, LLP- a 900-lawyer firm based in Washington, DC, and practicing in in DC, Texas, and Maine.  In 1982, Kevin and Irv Shapell co- founded the Jewish Advocacy Center (JAC ) with the specific purpose of bringing civil damage cases against the perpetrators of antisemitic violence.   In that year, the Maryland-based congregation Shaare Tefila synagogue was desecrated by 8 men with graphic Nazi slogans. 

During that time, the common practice was to quietly clean up such desecrations and not draw attention to them. But Shaare Tefila took a different approach and publicized the hate speech to rally the community to respond to the crime in a very visible way. Part of that visibility was to bring a civil damage claim - through the JAC - based upon the race-based statutes enacted after the Civil War that allowed black Americans to allege civil rights violations through the court system. Because that remedy was race-based, it did not apply to Jews. 

 In 1987, the United States Supreme Court in Shaare Tefila v Cobb, ruled that Jews could avail themselves of the remedies available under the race-based civil rights laws despite the fact that Jews are not a race. 

Kevin's discussion focuses on the ways in which the Jewish community must respond to unprecedented upticks in anti-Jewish violence. He has spent 40 years studying Jew hatred on both the left and the right.  His perspective is to advocate for an "all of the above approach," which includes some controversial responses.   He uses the Shaare Tefila case to address the ways in which the Jewish community has changed its responses, and he encourages a discussion of the efficacy of some of the traditional, as well as some of the more aggressive, responses.