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Shalom 2013-06 June.Indd Jewish Peace Letter Vol. 42 No. 5 Published by the Jewish Peace Fellowship June 2013 “Seek peace and pursue it” (Psalm 34:15) abbi Abraham Cronbach, Rabbi have always adamantly opposed the death pen- Isidor B. Hoffman and Jewish commu- alty and have in the past written appeals to vari- nal executive Jane Evans epitomized ous courts in this regard. We resolutely opposed Rtheir opposition to war and the compulsory national service and es- need to support those men who pecially the draft, and will so again could not in good conscience par- should their reinstatement be con- ticipate in war by founding the sidered. We have written, picketed Jewish Peace Fellowship in 1941. and marched against the warmak- Their initial purpose, former JPF ers during Vietnam, the Gulf War, President Naomi Goodman once and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. wrote, was to help imprisoned and And we have honored people and largely forsaken Jewish Conscien- organizations working to preserve tious Objectors before and during World War peace with our Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel II, men whose rejection of war was little un- Award. derstood by their fellow Jews. Years later, dur- In three years we will proudly mark our ing the Vietnam War, the JPF grew concerned seventy-fifth anniversary. Until then, and -be about the lack of a recognizable Jewish antiwar yond, we honor all the men and women who presence though many American Jews actively shared in creating and building the JPF. We opposed that war and others to follow. are inspired by Hillel, who sought to avoid bit- Over the years the JPF has sought to unite terness and contention in dealing with contro- those who believe Jewish ideals and experience versy and to maintain the spirit of self-giving provide inspiration for a nonviolent way of life. love while engaged in the effort to achieve Toward that end, our aims and activities have these purposes: “Be of the disciples of Aaron, expanded, and we have become a Jewish voice loving peace and pursuing peace, and loving in the peace community and a peace voice in the mankind and drawing them to the Torah.” Jewish community. In the absence of a draft we This issue of Shalom reprints seven articles continue to work for a negotiated and nonvio- among the very many which have appeared in lent two-state solution between Israel and Pal- its print version. Each speaks to the writers’ estine. We also support Israeli young men and concerns about Jewish life here and abroad: women who wish to be Conscientious Objec- war and peace, a daughter’s recollection of her tors. We participate in the Prison Visitation Ser- rabbi father, Jewish life in Germany, Israel, and vice, a group that visits and stays in touch with more. We hope you enjoy reading them. forgotten prisoners, Jewish and non-Jewish. We — The Jewish Peace Fellowship ISSN: 0197-9115 From Where I Sit Stefan Merken Th e Jewish Peace Fellowship’s Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Award he Jewish Peace Fellowship’s Rabbi Abraham religious and secular. Joshua Heschel Award is presented to an individual Al Vorspan has never been shy about or organization that has made exceptional contribu- publicly expressing his concerns about Ttions to peace and justice in the Jewish tradition. crucial public issues even in the face of We are pleased to announce that Albert Vorspan is the criticism by some in the organized Jew- recipient this year of our Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel ish community. In 1966, for example, Albert Vorspan Award. he condemned American involvement Th e quest for peace among nations and social justice at in Vietnam, drawing the wrath of the war’s supporters. In home and abroad has been a lifelong pursuit for Albert Vor- Th e New York Times Magazine, in 1988, he criticized Israeli span. government policies following the fi rst Palestinian Intifada, Al — as everybody calls him —Vorspan has been one of writing, “Whether we accept it or not, every night’s television the most consistent and infl uential voices within and outside news confi rms it: Israelis now seem the oppressors, Palestin- organized American Jewish life. Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, ians the victims,” a sentiment which did not endear him to in 1924, he served as director of the Commission on Social some in the Jewish community. Action of Reform Judaism, as well as senior vice president His book, Jewish Dimensions of Social Justice: Tough of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations (now the Moral Choices of Our Time (co-authored with David Saper- Union for Reform Judaism). stein), has been a voice of prophetic Judaism. Another of his Above all, he was and remains a vital and prophetic books, Giants of Justice, deals with contributions to social voice of faith and reason within American Jewry’s Reform justice by such Jewish luminaries as Louis Brandeis, Albert Movement, and also played a huge role in emphasizing ethi- Einstein, Stephen Wise, Louis Marshall, Henrietta Szold, cal concerns and moral behavior to generations of Jews, both David Dubinsky, Abraham Cronbach and Herbert Lehman. Th e Jewish Peace Fellowship is proud to present this Stefan Merken is chair of the Jewish Peace Fellowship. year’s Heschel Award to Albert Vorspan. Y Peace, Justice and Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition Edited by Murray Polner and Stefan Merken. A landmark collection of contemporary progressive Jewish thought written by activists from Israel, the U.S. and the U.K. Publishers Weekly called it “literate, thought-provoking” and “by no means homogeneous” and which looked at “from all angles, the idea that editors Polner and Merken believe refl ect the most basic attitude in our Jewish heritage.” Publishers Weekly concluded: “There is much to learn here for any- one, Jew or Gentile, interested in global issues of peace and justice.” $25.00 per copy, plus $5.00 for shipping 2 • Shalom: Jewish Peace Letter June 2013 Jewish Peace Fellowship Civil Rights Susannah Heschel ‘God Is Affected by What Human Beings Do’ t is very special for me to be here on this occa- ment in the Talmud which says that, “when the Temple in Jeru- sion [of the Abraham, Joshua Heschel Award ceremony] salem went up in flames, God cried.” And there’s a statement in which is honoring my father and my mother for the work the Midrash in which God says, “I am God, and you are my wit- Ithat they accomplished, for the home they created, for the nesses, and if you are not my witnesses, then I am not God.” And values they always stood for. I want to say a few words about so just as God is involved in our lives, just as God suffers with my father. us, so a genuinely religious person is also involved in the lives The first thing, of course, that we might ask is: What of other people. Who is a religious person? A religious person, does it mean to create peace? my father would say, is someone Obviously, it means a com- who suffers the harm done to mitment to certain principles other people. — you have to stand for some- My father put it very stark- thing. But it also means creat- ly. He said “Whatever we do to ing a certain kind of people, another person, we do to God. people with certain kinds of When we hurt a human being, human qualites. And that, I we injure God. When we do a think, was the central message holy act, we give strength to of my father’s work. My father God. God is affected by what asked, “What kinds of quali- human beings do.” My father ties does it take inside of us often used to say in his lec- and our souls to create a world tures, “To be a Jew is not sim- of peace?”; and he asked, “How ply to be, but to stand for.” He can we shape ourselves to said that “every Jew is a repre- bring about a world of peace? sentative of the Jewish spirit, What kinds of people do we every human being is a disclo- have to be?” And for my father, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel’s father, sure of the divine. if you really the central qualities were com- participated in the Selma Civil Rights March on March 21, want to understand the mean- passion and empathy. Those 1965. The march led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act ing of God,” he said, “sharpen in July 1965. From far left: U.S. Representative John Lewis are the qualities that emerged your sense of the human.” (D-GA), who had been severely beaten on March 7, 1965, while again and again in his theolog- In his own life, my father leading the “Bloody Sunday” march; an unidentified nun; the ical writings and his political became involved in political Rev. Ralph Abernathy; the Rev.Martin Luther King, Jr.; Ralph work, and also in the kind of Bunche, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; issues, not just because he con- person that he was, the kind of Rabbi Heschel; the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. cluded intellectually that this person he was at home. was the right stand to take, but ln my father’s theological writings, he talks about God as a more than that. Whatever the situation was, he responded God who cares about us, a God who cares about human beings, with his heart, empathetically, with warmth, with affection. who’s involved in our lives, a God who’s involved in human his- He was the kind of person who was always attentive to other tory.
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