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Congregation Hakafa and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs present… Building a Beloved Community: A Weekend Honoring Dr. King’s Legacy featuring the Afro-Semitic Experience
January 19 @ 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM

Saturday, January 18, 2025
- 6:30 PM: Havdallah and Klezmer/Jazz/Gospel Fusion Concert
Light dessert to follow.
Sunday, January 19, 2025
- 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Forum: “Beloved Community: Moving Beyond the Dream”
Congregation Hakafa and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs present a 90-minute program on Dr. King’s timeless concept of “beloved community” and how it can be utilized to fight current threats to a multicultural democracy that is free of racism and antisemitism.
Light lunch to follow. - 1:00-2:30 PM: Concert
The Sounds of Civil Rights: The music of Dr. King’s Beloved Community
Advance registration required.
North Shore location will be provided after registration.
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The Afro-Semitic Experience is an American roots jazz band with a difference. Founded in 1998 by pianist Warren Byrd and bassist David Chevan, they have been performing, recording, and teaching together for over 25 years. Their friendship ignites their passion and purpose: Together, as a band, they merge their musical roots, Jewish and Afro-diasporic melodies and grooves, combining the core concepts of àse and shalom – power, action, unity, and peace. The result is a powerful and poetic musical experience that celebrates diversity, promotes social justice, and inspires hope and joy. Their music embodies the radical notion that people of different faiths, races, and beliefs can come together through music; to celebrate and build community. The result is what one music journalist called, “a whoopin’, hollerin’, testifyin’ celebration of multicultural soul music. Imagine Charles Mingus sitting in with a Klezmer band, playing Gospel music set to the polyrhythmic pace of congas and bongos.”