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Kol Shalomapril 2018 L Nisan I Iyar 5778 INSIDE the ISSUE Rabbi's Letter ISRAEL, PALESTINE & MISHKAN by Rabbi Shawn Zevit SHALOM, Pg For members and friends of Mishkan Shalom kol shalomApril 2018 l Nisan I Iyar 5778 INSIDE THE ISSUE Rabbi's Letter ISRAEL, PALESTINE & MISHKAN by Rabbi Shawn Zevit SHALOM, Pg. 6 As we enter fully into the Jewish months of Nisan and Iyar, we will have opportunities to dialogue, organize, learn and pray, celebrate and wrestle with ideas of oppression and liberation in our personal lives, in our nation, and in the larger world. As Moshe, Aaron, Miriam and our ancestors did in their time, we can take on economic dignity (April 4th I YOM HASHOAH, V'HAGEVURAH am Human Campaign), and injustice (Jewish Labor Council/MLK50-Labor- Pg. 8 (Mishkan Program, April 11) Justice Interfaith-Freedom Seder), hand in hand with our own individual and collective journey as we strive to live a life of meaning and purpose, serving Justice-Love-Values-Spirit-God. There are many days that stand out for both their historic resonance, as in the last days of Passover, and days that have been added to the Jewish calendar by events that have transpired in the last century and even in RIVKA'S INTER- some of our lifetimes. GENERATIONAL We will be observing Yom Ha’Shoah V’HaGevurah (“Holocaust and FIESTA! Pg. 5 Heroism Remembrance Day”) on Wednesday, April 11th at 6:30pm with our Hebrew School and will include some people who helped design, establish and sponsor both of our Shoah Memorials. APRIL 29 Also, as Gene Bishop describes in her article in this issue of Kol Shalom, Pg. 4 we have begun gathering in ways to re-connect to Israel and Palestine. There are a variety of organizations and resources available that did not exist when we formed as a community under the leadership of Rabbi Brian Walt in 1988. I have compiled a list of these resources and those WEEKEND IN THE WOODS in JUNE! can also be found in this issue, along with Gene’s article. You are invited to join this re-engagement effort as well. At the first meeting of members interested in re-engaging with the Israel- Palestine issue, it also became apparent to me that we have not done the SIGN UP NOW! Go to Pgs.10-11 best job of highlighting to the community what we have been doing the past few years. Rabbi Brian, our Rabbi Emeritus, told me when we spoke TABLE OF CONTENTS recently that his own daughter was very moved and called him when she Letter from Rabbi Shawn ...........................1 visited Mishkan last fall and saw our exhibit on life in the West Bank. I A Way In, Rabbi Yael .................................3 am pleased to say that Rabbi Brian will be visiting us over the weekend of June 1-2, as part of our Mishkan@30: Regeneration Campaign and Congregational School ...............................4 celebration. Israel-Palestine .........................................6-7 Library ............................................................9 In the past five years, we have addressed our connection to Israel and Weekend in the Woods ....................10 -11 issues related to Israel-Palestine, at Shabbat services in response to events Donations ....................................................13 on the ground, in High Holiday sermons, on social media, in our school Acts of Caring .............................................14 curriculum, and with guest speakers, programs, exhibits, lobbying and Yahrzeits ........................................................15 external programmatic co-sponsorships. We discuss Israel and Palestine T’filot .............................................................16 (continued on the next page) The Lower Jordan River Project of Ecopeace Middle East (continued from previous page) secure State of Israel and self-determination and as part of our overall Statement of Principles as part independence for the Palestinian people. of a unit in the conversion classes I offer. My own way of engaging with Israel and Palestine is a Our own movement, now re-named Reconstructing commitment to building relationships with Israelis and Judaism, has been built on some philosophical and Palestinians, not only ideas and concepts. It was the theological approaches that many of us may not be basis of Rabbi Simcha and my visit to the region and familiar with. Exploring Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan’s ideas what I hope could be our own congregational trip in about “spiritual Zionism” and the many articles from the future. I also am committed to dialogue and action “The Reconstructionist” magazine are vital for us to that honors a key part of Jewish ethical speech and understand some of our own movement’s influences. our own Statement of Principles, where we do not Reconstructing Judaism is exploring a new Task Force divide Gemilut Hasadim (Acts of Loving-kindness, i.e. on Israel, building on the prior 2004 Task Force which how we treat each other) and Tikkun Olam (Repair is still in process and included as some of its basic and Justice in the World, i.e. the actions we take in the guiding principles: world for the sake of justice and our values). • We will advocate for those in Israeli politics I especially appreciate the work of Friends of the and society who know that it is untenable to continue Earth Middle East as well as others who understand to rule over a Palestinian population that has no right that environmental justice is key to the safety, to vote and no control over their own collective security and future of the Middle East. No initiative future, however remote and unclear a solution to that will provide the peace desired without addressing dilemma might be. sustainability of the region, the planet and water, soil, • We will remind American Jews and all others air, etc. that Israel operates in a wildly volatile and dangerous At the last meeting of our board, the Israel-Palestine region, that anti-Semitism is a real and vicious threat, conversation group, and Spiritual Life committee, I and we encourage our constituents to take thoughtful raised the issue of wanting to do some programming and well-informed positions. to mark Yom Ha’atzmaut which falls on a Hebrew • We will model respectful public discourse, school night, Wed Apr 18th, in the 6:30-8:00pm time despite the all-too-common human impulse to shout frame. We are considering a combination of film, down and berate people with whom we disagree. songs/poems/prayers and personal group discussion of Following our Reconstructionist principles, dissent the kind we have begun doing in a smaller group and will be welcome. We do not expect, let alone require, now want to open to the whole community. consensus. I look forward to sharing this month ahead with More recently, our movement began offering all of you, in prayer, discussion, celebration and learning networks on-line regarding “dual Israeli and commemoration, in learning and activism at Mishkan Palestinian narratives.” These resources and processes Shalom and in the streets and spaces of our larger can support our own communal discussions and community. Hazak Hazak v’nithazek - Let us be actions towards a flourishing and democratic, a strong and strengthen each other! 2 A Way In by Rabbi Yael Levy Dear Friends, As we begin the month of April and continue into spring we enter the time of the counting of the omer, the 49-day period that begins on the second night of Passover and culminates on Shavuot. The practice during the omer is to stand each night and count the coming day with the intention of clearing our minds, hearts and sprits so we can live in fuller and wiser relationship with each other and the Mysterious Unfolding of All Life. Every week and each day of the omer contain spiritual qualities that guide us in cultivating discernment, awareness, openness, wisdom and love. Here is a guide for focusing the attention for each of the seven weeks of the omer journey. Week 1 Hesed: Overflowing Love, Week 4 Netzach: Vision, Eternity, Endurance Kindness, Generosity We call forth wide, expansive vision and invite our We begin with love, and set an intention to cultivate imaginations to flourish. a generous and expansive heart: We lift our eyes to see beyond where we have been May I see the world with eyes of grace, love and and what we have known. compassion. To You, Eternal Presence, I lift my soul. May I trust that each of us is doing the best we — psalm 25:1 can in each moment. i place hesed before my eyes and walk in the truths Week 5 Hod: Gratitude, Presence that unfold. — psalm 26:3 We sit in the present moment and give thanks: I am grateful. I open my heart to whatever is. Week 2 Gevurah: Strength, Judgment, Discernment i give thanks with all my heart. — psalm 138:1 With awe we look toward the Mysterious Unfolding of Life: Week 6 Yesod: Foundation, Connection May I remember we are all complex, fragile and We align ourselves in connection to each other and sacred beings. all the earth: With strength and humility I stand with all life may my prayers be rooted, before the One. may they rise like incense, we are called to act with righteousness, grounded may the offerings of my hands be received in deep faith. — psalm 119:138 as a gift. — psalm 141:2 Week 3 Tiferet: Beauty, Harmony, Balance, Truth Week 7 Malchut, Shechina: Majesty, Divine We breathe in the radiance that emanates from the Presence heart of the world, and we pray for ourselves and We open to the sacred that flows through us and all each other: the world: may our hearts know happiness, i lift my hands to do mitzvot, may our souls know joy, i lift my hands to love. — psalm 119:48 may our whole being dwell in trust. — psalm 16:9 May the season of the omer guide us with wisdom, inspiring the words of our mouths, the love of our hearts and the work of our hands to come together for healing, goodness, understanding, well-being and peace.
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