A thought on Rosh Hashanah "...Jews everywhere are called to affirm that as long as subjugation exists, none of us are free. When it is easier to close a school than a gun store, none of us is truly free. When black teenagers must fear armed neighborhood vigilantes, and when the strict application of the law does not align with the dictates of justice, none of us is truly free. When law enforcement has a racial bias, and when legislative act and judicial fiat threatens universal suffrage, none of us is truly free. When gay and lesbian people are bullied and brutalized, and when they are not afforded equal rights and protections, none of us is truly free. When Egyptian churches are burned, Israelis live in terror of rocket fire, Palestinians lack political freedoms, and children are gassed in the streets of Syria, none of us is free. This Rosh Hashanah, as we consider what kind of people we want to be and what kind of world we want to build, let us remember that none of us are truly free until, to paraphrase both King and the Jewish prophet Amos, justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 10:19:22 +0000