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121_223	The station is served by the following services:. References
121_224	Railway stations in Brandenburg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1871
121_225	Buildings and structures in Elbe-Elster Elbe-Elster Land
122_0	Denise Leese (Davida) Eger (born March 14, 1960) is an American Reform rabbi. In March 2015 she
122_1	became president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the largest and oldest rabbinical
122_2	organization in North America; she was the first openly gay person to hold that position.
122_3	Biography
122_4	Denise Eger was born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, the 2nd daughter of Bernard Eger and Estelle
122_5	(Leese) Eger. She was raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She studied voice at Memphis State University,
122_6	then transferred to the University of Southern California, where she majored in religion. She then
122_7	studied at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, from which she earned a master's
122_8	degree, and went on to pursue rabbinic studies. She came out publicly as gay in 1990 in a story in
122_9	the Los Angeles Times.
122_10	Career
122_11	Prior to ordination, Eger served as a rabbinic internship for the Chaverim group in Westwood, for
122_12	the 1983–84 term. She then became an intern in 1985-86 under Rabbi Solomon F. Kleinman at Temple
122_13	Ahavat Shalom Northridge in Southern California. Rabbi Eger was ordained in 1988 at the New York
122_14	campus of Hebrew Union College, following which she served as the first full-time rabbi of Beth
122_15	Chayim Chadashim in Los Angeles, the world's first gay and lesbian synagogue recognized by Reform
122_16	Judaism. In 1992, she and 25 other people founded Congregation Kol Ami, a synagogue intended to
122_17	serve both gay and non-gay Jews in West Hollywood, California. Kol Ami has flourished into a
122_18	350-member congregation. Significant accomplishments include successfully fundraising to purchase
122_19	land and construct an award-winning building, located on LaBrea avenue in West Hollywood, which was
122_20	completed in 2001, and building an endowment that contributes 15 percent of the synagogue's annual
122_21	operating budge
122_22	She previously served as the chair of the Search Alliance Institutional Review Board and Treasurer
122_23	of the Women's Rabbinic Network, and is a past president of the Pacific Association of Reform
122_24	Rabbis. She chaired the Gay and Lesbian Rabbinic Network of the Central Conference of American
122_25	Rabbis and is past chair of the Task Force on Gays and Lesbians in the Rabbinate. She is a founding
122_26	member of the Religion and Faith Council of the Human Rights Campaign and a founding executive
122_27	committee member of California Faith for Equality. She is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Shalom
122_28	Hartman Institute.
122_29	Rabbi Eger was instrumental in helping pass the March 2000 CCAR resolution in support of
122_30	officiation and gay and lesbian weddings. She is co-author of the official Reform movement gay and
122_31	lesbian wedding liturgy. She officiated at the wedding of activists Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, on
122_32	June 16, 2008.
122_33	In 2009, she became the first female and the first openly gay President of the Board of Rabbis of
122_34	Southern California. She was also the founding President of the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Interfaith
122_35	Clergy Association. In the summer of 2010 she was named one of the fifty most influential women
122_36	rabbis.
122_37	In March 2015 she became president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the largest and
122_38	oldest rabbinical organization in North America; she is the first openly gay person to hold that
122_39	position. As head of the 2300 member international organization of Reform Rabbis, her achievements
122_40	include revitalizing the ethics code by instituting mandatory continuing education; increasing
122_41	CCAR's visibility by transforming the process for adoption of resolutions on public policy issues,
122_42	and effective social media and press strategies; developing international relationships among
122_43	Reform Rabbis serving outside North America; and strengthened governance by instituting term limits
122_44	for committee chairs and members. Through her initiative, the CCAR created mandatory continuing
122_45	education requirements for its members.
122_46	Rabbi Eger is co-editor of the book Gender & Religious Leadership: Women Rabbis, Pastors and
122_47	Ministers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). She is the editor of the groundbreaking book Mishkan
122_48	Ga'avah: Where Pride Dwells, A Celebration of LGBTQ Jewish Life and Ritual (CCAR Press, 2020). This
122_49	is a collection of prayers and rituals for LGBTQ Jews and allies as well as ceremonies for LGBTQ
122_50	significant moments and life cycle events.
122_51	She has contributed articles to numerous publications including, The Social Justice Torah
122_52	Commentary, (ed. Barry Block, CCAR Press, 2021), The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the
122_53	Rabbinate (ed. Schorr & Graf, CCAR Press, 2016), Torah Queeries (ed. Drinkwater, Schneer, & Lesser,
122_54	NYU Press, 2009), Contemporary Debates in Reform Judaism (ed. Kaplan, Routledge 2001).
122_55	Community service
122_56	Eger has worked extensively with people with HIV/AIDS, and is widely known as an expert on Judaism
122_57	and LGBT civil rights. She is a noted author contributing to anthologies such as Torah Queeries,
122_58	Lesbian Rabbis, Twice Blessed, and Conflicting Visions: Contemporary Debates in Reform Judaism. She
122_59	wrote the piece "Creating Opportunities for the 'Other': The Ordination of Women as a Turning Point
122_60	for LGBT Jews", which appears in the book The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the
122_61	Rabbinate, published in 2016.
122_62	Rabbi Eger has made activism in pursuit of justice for all people a cornerstone of her rabbinate.
122_63	She has been active in helping to negotiate for improved labor conditions in local hotels and in
122_64	the agriculture industry; in working for a moratorium on the death penalty in California and in
122_65	efforts to halt genocide and crimes against humanity around the world.
122_66	She has worked extensively with people with AIDS. Eger has facilitated an HIV+ support group for 30
122_67	years. She served as co-chair of the Community Advisory Board of the Shanti Foundation and is a
122_68	past Chair of the Spiritual Advisory Committee of AIDS Project Los Angeles. She is past co-chair
122_69	of the Institutional Review Board for Search Alliance, an AIDS drug research organization. She
122_70	cofounded the LGBT Interfaith Clergy Group of Southern California and served as its first
122_71	president.
122_72	She served on as a founding member of the board of ZIONESS, a progressive Pro-Israel advocacy
122_73	organization. She has helped to mentor young rabbinical students at the Hebrew Union College and
122_74	also served as a mentor to rabbinical students for AIPAC. She is a founding member of the Religion
122_75	and Faith Council of the Human Rights Campaign. She served on the Board of the No On Knight
122_76	Campaign/No on Proposition 22. and sat on the Board of the Equality for All/No on Prop 8. She was a
122_77	founder of the California Faith for Equality and helped to organize Jews for Marriage Equality.
122_78	Rabbi Eger is a Trustee of the Reform Pension Board, a joint project of the Union for Reform
122_79	Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis. She also sits on the Camp Committee for the
122_80	URJ's Henry S. Jacobs Camp, in Utica, MS.
122_81	Honors References External links Denise Eger's blog
122_82	1960 births Living people American Reform rabbis Hebrew Union College alumni LGBT rabbis
122_83	People from Memphis, Tennessee Women rabbis 21st-century American Jews 21st-century LGBT people
123_0	Aruvi (; ) is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language political drama film written and directed by Arun Prabu
123_1	Purushothaman, in his directorial debut. Produced and distributed by S. R. Prakash Babu and S. R.
123_2	Prabhu of Dream Warrior Pictures, the film stars Aditi Balan, Anjali Vardhan, and Lakshmi
123_3	Gopalaswamy, while Pradeep Antony and Mohammad Ali Baig play supporting roles. The film portrays
123_4	the events that occur in the life of Aruvi, a rebellious young woman who seeks to expose the
123_5	consumerist and misogynistic nature of modern civilisation, while attempting to find meaning during
123_6	a period of existential crisis.
123_7	Arun Prabu Purushothaman wrote a script based on global conflicts in late-2009, but as the
123_8	scripting took a long time to materialise, he later halted the project and worked on another script
123_9	in late-2013 which became Aruvi. The film revolves around how HIV patients are treated in the
123_10	soceity, and for the titular character, Prabu had approached leading actresses, however they
123_11	rejected the script because of the sensitive nature in the topic and eventually, Aditi Balan was
123_12	selected through an audition. The entire cast and crew were consisted of newcomers, Shelley Calist

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The station is served by the following services:. References

121_224

Railway stations in Brandenburg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1871

121_225

Buildings and structures in Elbe-Elster Elbe-Elster Land

122_0

Denise Leese (Davida) Eger (born March 14, 1960) is an American Reform rabbi. In March 2015 she

122_1

became president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the largest and oldest rabbinical

122_2

organization in North America; she was the first openly gay person to hold that position.

122_3

Biography

122_4

Denise Eger was born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, the 2nd daughter of Bernard Eger and Estelle

122_5

(Leese) Eger. She was raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She studied voice at Memphis State University,

122_6

then transferred to the University of Southern California, where she majored in religion. She then

122_7

studied at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, from which she earned a master's

122_8

degree, and went on to pursue rabbinic studies. She came out publicly as gay in 1990 in a story in

122_9

the Los Angeles Times.

122_10

Career

122_11

Prior to ordination, Eger served as a rabbinic internship for the Chaverim group in Westwood, for

122_12

the 1983–84 term. She then became an intern in 1985-86 under Rabbi Solomon F. Kleinman at Temple

122_13

Ahavat Shalom Northridge in Southern California. Rabbi Eger was ordained in 1988 at the New York

122_14

campus of Hebrew Union College, following which she served as the first full-time rabbi of Beth

122_15

Chayim Chadashim in Los Angeles, the world's first gay and lesbian synagogue recognized by Reform

122_16

Judaism. In 1992, she and 25 other people founded Congregation Kol Ami, a synagogue intended to

122_17

serve both gay and non-gay Jews in West Hollywood, California. Kol Ami has flourished into a

122_18

350-member congregation. Significant accomplishments include successfully fundraising to purchase

122_19

land and construct an award-winning building, located on LaBrea avenue in West Hollywood, which was

122_20

completed in 2001, and building an endowment that contributes 15 percent of the synagogue's annual

122_21

operating budge

122_22

She previously served as the chair of the Search Alliance Institutional Review Board and Treasurer

122_23

of the Women's Rabbinic Network, and is a past president of the Pacific Association of Reform

122_24

Rabbis. She chaired the Gay and Lesbian Rabbinic Network of the Central Conference of American

122_25

Rabbis and is past chair of the Task Force on Gays and Lesbians in the Rabbinate. She is a founding

122_26

member of the Religion and Faith Council of the Human Rights Campaign and a founding executive

122_27

committee member of California Faith for Equality. She is a Senior Rabbinic Fellow of the Shalom

122_28

Hartman Institute.

122_29

Rabbi Eger was instrumental in helping pass the March 2000 CCAR resolution in support of

122_30

officiation and gay and lesbian weddings. She is co-author of the official Reform movement gay and

122_31

lesbian wedding liturgy. She officiated at the wedding of activists Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, on

122_32

June 16, 2008.

122_33

In 2009, she became the first female and the first openly gay President of the Board of Rabbis of

122_34

Southern California. She was also the founding President of the Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Interfaith

122_35

Clergy Association. In the summer of 2010 she was named one of the fifty most influential women

122_36

rabbis.

122_37

In March 2015 she became president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the largest and

122_38

oldest rabbinical organization in North America; she is the first openly gay person to hold that

122_39

position. As head of the 2300 member international organization of Reform Rabbis, her achievements

122_40

include revitalizing the ethics code by instituting mandatory continuing education; increasing

122_41

CCAR's visibility by transforming the process for adoption of resolutions on public policy issues,

122_42

and effective social media and press strategies; developing international relationships among

122_43

Reform Rabbis serving outside North America; and strengthened governance by instituting term limits

122_44

for committee chairs and members. Through her initiative, the CCAR created mandatory continuing

122_45

education requirements for its members.

122_46

Rabbi Eger is co-editor of the book Gender & Religious Leadership: Women Rabbis, Pastors and

122_47

Ministers (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019). She is the editor of the groundbreaking book Mishkan

122_48

Ga'avah: Where Pride Dwells, A Celebration of LGBTQ Jewish Life and Ritual (CCAR Press, 2020). This

122_49

is a collection of prayers and rituals for LGBTQ Jews and allies as well as ceremonies for LGBTQ

122_50

significant moments and life cycle events.

122_51

She has contributed articles to numerous publications including, The Social Justice Torah

122_52

Commentary, (ed. Barry Block, CCAR Press, 2021), The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the

122_53

Rabbinate (ed. Schorr & Graf, CCAR Press, 2016), Torah Queeries (ed. Drinkwater, Schneer, & Lesser,

122_54

NYU Press, 2009), Contemporary Debates in Reform Judaism (ed. Kaplan, Routledge 2001).

122_55

Community service

122_56

Eger has worked extensively with people with HIV/AIDS, and is widely known as an expert on Judaism

122_57

and LGBT civil rights. She is a noted author contributing to anthologies such as Torah Queeries,

122_58

Lesbian Rabbis, Twice Blessed, and Conflicting Visions: Contemporary Debates in Reform Judaism. She

122_59

wrote the piece "Creating Opportunities for the 'Other': The Ordination of Women as a Turning Point

122_60

for LGBT Jews", which appears in the book The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the

122_61

Rabbinate, published in 2016.

122_62

Rabbi Eger has made activism in pursuit of justice for all people a cornerstone of her rabbinate.

122_63

She has been active in helping to negotiate for improved labor conditions in local hotels and in

122_64

the agriculture industry; in working for a moratorium on the death penalty in California and in

122_65

efforts to halt genocide and crimes against humanity around the world.

122_66

She has worked extensively with people with AIDS. Eger has facilitated an HIV+ support group for 30

122_67

years. She served as co-chair of the Community Advisory Board of the Shanti Foundation and is a

122_68

past Chair of the Spiritual Advisory Committee of AIDS Project Los Angeles. She is past co-chair

122_69

of the Institutional Review Board for Search Alliance, an AIDS drug research organization. She

122_70

cofounded the LGBT Interfaith Clergy Group of Southern California and served as its first

122_71

president.

122_72

She served on as a founding member of the board of ZIONESS, a progressive Pro-Israel advocacy

122_73

organization. She has helped to mentor young rabbinical students at the Hebrew Union College and

122_74

also served as a mentor to rabbinical students for AIPAC. She is a founding member of the Religion

122_75

and Faith Council of the Human Rights Campaign. She served on the Board of the No On Knight

122_76

Campaign/No on Proposition 22. and sat on the Board of the Equality for All/No on Prop 8. She was a

122_77

founder of the California Faith for Equality and helped to organize Jews for Marriage Equality.

122_78

Rabbi Eger is a Trustee of the Reform Pension Board, a joint project of the Union for Reform

122_79

Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis. She also sits on the Camp Committee for the

122_80

URJ's Henry S. Jacobs Camp, in Utica, MS.

122_81

Honors References External links Denise Eger's blog

122_82

1960 births Living people American Reform rabbis Hebrew Union College alumni LGBT rabbis

122_83

People from Memphis, Tennessee Women rabbis 21st-century American Jews 21st-century LGBT people

123_0

Aruvi (; ) is a 2017 Indian Tamil-language political drama film written and directed by Arun Prabu

123_1

Purushothaman, in his directorial debut. Produced and distributed by S. R. Prakash Babu and S. R.

123_2

Prabhu of Dream Warrior Pictures, the film stars Aditi Balan, Anjali Vardhan, and Lakshmi

123_3

Gopalaswamy, while Pradeep Antony and Mohammad Ali Baig play supporting roles. The film portrays

123_4

the events that occur in the life of Aruvi, a rebellious young woman who seeks to expose the

123_5

consumerist and misogynistic nature of modern civilisation, while attempting to find meaning during

123_6

a period of existential crisis.

123_7

Arun Prabu Purushothaman wrote a script based on global conflicts in late-2009, but as the

123_8

scripting took a long time to materialise, he later halted the project and worked on another script

123_9

in late-2013 which became Aruvi. The film revolves around how HIV patients are treated in the

123_10

soceity, and for the titular character, Prabu had approached leading actresses, however they

123_11

rejected the script because of the sensitive nature in the topic and eventually, Aditi Balan was

123_12

selected through an audition. The entire cast and crew were consisted of newcomers, Shelley Calist