Ellen Lippmann
Ellen Lippmann seeks to include everyone in Judaism through her social justice work. After her ordination by the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Lippmann served as East Coast director of MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, director of the Jewish Women's Program at the New 14th Street Y in Manhattan, the first social justice chair for the Women’s Rabbinic Network, and co-chair of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, where she is still a board member. Lippmann founded and continues to serve as rabbi at Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives: Building a Progressive Jewish Community in Brooklyn, an LGBTQ-inclusive, nondenominational congregation. She also founded the Soup Kitchen at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and co-founded the Children of Abraham Peace Walk: Jews, Christians and Muslims Walking Together in Brooklyn in Peace.
Dear Rabbi Ellen Lippman,
I am a writer and retired professor who led the screenwriting program in the film school at UCLA for decades.
There is no mezuzah over my door, nor do I keep kosher, and if I belonged to a temple it would be so reformed as to close for the High Holy Days. That said, every cell in my body, every thought in my head, and every word that I write is informed by my Ashkenazy soul.
My new novel Deadpan, released earlier this year by Skyhorse Publishing under its Heresy Press imprint, is a funny tale regarding an unfunny subject: hate speech, bigotry, and antisemitism in particular. It features an endorsement by, among others, Rabbi Laura Geller. Given your ink in the NYT, I thought you might find it to be of interest.
May I send you a copy with my compliments and pleasure? If so, can you provide me with a preferred mailing address?
With thanks for your consideration,
Richard
Richard Walter