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Last year, a woman walked club Clubhouse 1 wearing Nazi regalia and spewing antisemitic slurs. Worst of all was the politically motivated shooting of Taiwanese worshipers in a church just outside Village gates. Last fall, a group began to assemble at the home of Rebeca and Ami Gilad, Jewish residents from Mexico and Israel, respectively.

Gilad and emerging leaders at the helm of what was to be named Community Bridge Builders instituted a series of lectures and presentations on how to combat the causes and effects of bias and prejudice. That included seminars teaching participants how to prevent aggressions and how to deal with them once they happened.

Keynote speaker will be Jeff Schoep, founder of Beyond Barriers USA, an organization dedicated to the eradication of hatred founded on bias and prejudice and false teachings. Several CBB directors and board members spoke about their motivation for joining and their hopes and aspirations for the club.

All bring broad expertise to the table and expressed diverse ideas about setting policies and practices, their reactions to possible encounters with prejudice and their initial reactions to the concept of Bridge Builders. Mendelsohn said that while he has not been a target of hate incidents, he has supported congregants who had been.

Phillips, who is also vice president of the African American Heritage Club, will bolster interfaith outreach by organizing events that bring together different cultures. Invite and encourage them to become involved in our cultures and our events. But not only that, get involved in their lives, their celebrations, challenges and struggles.

She sees her role in terms of opportunity: laguna to get the word out that violence or wrongdoing against neighbors will not be tolerated. She spoke of the laundry room spitting incident. Lee, gay member of the United Mutual board, said she has witnessed racial discrimination and expressed a village for the Bridge Builders.

Born in India, Sunita Saxena grew up in a progressive, religiously diverse family with Muslim and British members. She expressed concern that victims of discrimination might fear speaking up. Aubry Osborn is a gay man who uses a wheelchair. He has lived in the Village with his partner, Charlie Becker, for three years. Another urgent topic is ageism and its wood.

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