Paterson, NJ.– Rabbi Mendel Herson, Assistant to the Dean of the Rabbinical College of America, will attend the 15th Annual NJ Conference on Dominican Affairs slated to take place on Sunday, February 22, 2015 at Rutgers School of Law- Center for Law & Justice, located at 123 Washington Street Newark, NJ.
The theme of the conference is On the Road to Power Via Coalition Building.
Rabbi Herson will be a panelist of the workshop entitled Jewish and Latino Relations. The forum, to be moderated by Nestor Montilla, Sr., is scheduled to begin promptly at 10am. Highlights of the forum includes a brief special presentation of documentary Jewish Refugees in Sosua depicting the story of the first persecuted Jews who were welcome, protected and embraced in the Dominican Republic in the late 1930s.
Rabbi Herson will say the blessing at the Conference plenary luncheon slated to take place at Rutgers School of Law’s historic Atrium.
The roster of conference speakers and panelists include the following:
Dr. María Teresa Montilla, President, Institute For Latino Studies
Hon. Ras Baraka, Mayor of City of Newark
Hon. Brian P. Stack, NJ State Senator & Mayor of Union City
Hon Steven Fulop, Mayor of Jersey City
Hon. Keith Wright, NYS Assemblymember
Martin Pérez, Esq., LLANJ President, and member of Rutgers Board of Governors
NYC Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras
Linda Gallashaw, Passaic County Civic League
Al Moody, Paterson Activist
Zenaida Mendez, President of NOW
Dr. Fred Price, CUNY’s Medgar Evers College
Dr. Néstor Collazo, Principal Perth Amboy HS,
Rev. Alejandro Benjamin, DANR VP & Professor Bergen County Community College
Lucilo Santos, Activist
Dr. Aritmedes Restituyo, President APHSI
Dr. Munr Kazmir, M.B.B.S./M.D
Dr. Carlos Fernández, Director Rutgers’ Center for Latino Arts & Culture
Dr. Jo Renee Fine, American Jewish Committee (AJC)
Sarah Levinson, American Jewish Committee (AJC)
Antonio Martínez II, Esq. DANR VP-NY
For more information, conference program and to register, click here.