Lodge welcomes Jewish speaker

    HOULTON, Maine — Rabbi Darah Lerner will be the third and final speaker in the Symposium on Peace program being presented by the Monument Lodge of Masons next Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m.     The public is invited to attend.  Light refreshments will be served.
Rabbi Lerner is the Rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Bangor. She was ordained in 2005 following a career in small business management.
Rabbi Lerner earned her B.A. Degree in Political Science from the University of California.  She was awarded a Masters of Hebrew Letters from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institution of Religion.
She is a regular speaker and teacher at Bangor Theological Seminary and The University of Maine.  She is a member of a Bangor area interfaith clergy ground and a frequent speaker in Judaism and Reform Judaism.
Previously speakers brought to Houlton through Monument Lodge’s Community Betterment Program have included Rev. Fr. Clement Thibodeau of Caribou and Dr. Mohammad Tabbah now of Bangor and formerly of Saudi Arabia.
This series of Symposiums has pursued a review of the concept of peace as contained in the great religious writings of its speakers in an attempt to find what people share in common was opposed to the readily observable differences.
Freemasonry holds freedom of religion to be an inalienable human right and tolerance an indispensable trait of the human character.
Believing that education and the rational use of the mind are keys to facing the problems of humanity, the Masons seek to dialogue on these issues with the goal of making good men better and promoting understanding and peace.