<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="4"><span style="text-indent:18pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Today's Issues group meets at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in person in the parlor of the Religious Education buildings next to the church and on Zoom  at:  </span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09" style="text-indent:18pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz0</span></a><span style="text-indent:18pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    </span></font></div><span id="m_-378213354901079801gmail-docs-internal-guid-19c36197-7fff-d7ce-2c14-bcdc03bb915e"><font size="4"><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For this Sunday, December 4, we will have:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1. a slide show based on an exhibition of Edward Hopper’s paintings set in New York City.  Reading: </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/arts/design/edward-hopper-whitney-museum.html" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Art Review: Edward Hopper’s Fantasy Island at the Whitney - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">      </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/arts/design/edward-hopper-whitney-museum.html?unlocked_article_code=j5bnaHDC08ZIun8rdel4UbpX90JCe9_k3XFaPdEHR2fLiNs4dIQmlCO7m5jmn4z0UVEdY1hQfVVNE0IuKspLmfkMqDEqi5abawD4iQPfMVN1sVzcyFIvPb8TXgIg0FZbriTXqzWq-nBiVf8lVvcpHQQAmtcmd19NC1D0bT3pXVdOrlfpmP5zN65HhtP2yqatknHbUlkNGLq8nxt0VuG5tsq8l-mbuKoOC9YIbJc0vC-kazMWNO9o8Nbj1wpCoEXR35Eyg1dIJ-GvBsmkwJkk97qI_6UoceVSjlKE4KYH6vKXiZxEHuR7Xp-hodd-wG5jfBJKqkKyT9IyhAcKdzgVyo3vmHAW74u8Di0&smid=share-url" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Printable Copy with Illustrations</span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.   </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QWz_ORakAOwmv-MCsQMFekVAx6MpBNlwA9txdcesPQc/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Printable Google Docs (Text Only)</span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.   Here is a </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HFE4g9dIL5_AgHal4bMUnsXQ1B7vlBJGATKz2nVsTZE/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Slide Show of Hopper’s<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"> works set in </span> New York City</span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, also focusing on the theme of loneliness and alienation.  </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2.  A discussion of  the recent increase in anti-semitism:  Reading: </span><a href="https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/anti-semitism-rise-trump" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Why Anti-Semitism Is on the Rise in the United States (dissentmagazine.org)</span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.   Also:  </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/opinion/kyrie-irving-kanye-west-antisemitism.html" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Opinion | Kyrie Irving, Kanye West and the Problem of Black Antisemitism - The New York Times (nytimes.com)</span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z8U6ydgVT-vooe6a9c0cGnFCtWB_fdCNVdayNH0mE0I/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Printable Google Docs Copy</span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></span></p></font><img src="cid:ii_lb41gg020" alt="image.png" width="539" height="349"><br><font size="4"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span><br></span></p></font></span><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div></div>