West Hartford – Community program featuring Ethiopian-Israeli Rabbi Sharon Z. Shalom, PhD, who was born in an Ethiopian village and, at the age of 9, embarked on a 1,500-mile trek through the Sudan without his family and was airlifted to Israel as part of Operation Moses. Today, he leads the Kdoshei Yisrael Synagogue in Kiryat Gat and lectures at Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv Universities; light breakfast; hosted by the Young Israel of West Hartford and Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford; 10:30 a.m.; at Mandell JCC, 335 Bloomfield Ave.