SAN DIEGO (SDJW) — Dumisani Washington, founder and chief executive officer of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI), will participate in five Jewish communal events in San Diego County from Friday, Feb. 21, through Sunday, Feb. 23.
He will be the featured speaker at a Black/ Jewish Clergy Breakfast at 9 a.m., Friday, at Temple Emanu-El in San Diego. That evening at 7 p.m., he will be the Shabbat dinner speaker at Hillel at San Diego State University.
Tickets are $5 each for the next two events in the “Stronger Together” Scholar-in-Residence Weekend: Havdalah, dessert, and discussion at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 22, at Temple Emanu-El , and a 2 p.m. gathering Sunday, Feb. 23, that includes a discussion and screening of the documentary Shared Legacies at the Hall of Nations in Balboa Park.
The film documents cooperation among the Jewish and African-American communities, according to Barrett Holman Leak, organizer in San Diego of the Playing Together Project which promotes Jewish and African-American intercommunal events.
The final public event in Washington’s visit to San Diego County is a StandWithUs dinner at 6 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 23 at Chabad of Rancho Santa Fe.
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San Diego Jewish World staff report