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Asj Kue SUMMER 2014 • TAMMUZ / AV / ELUL 5774 / TISHREI 5775 Kol HADASH. new voIce asj kue SUMMER 2014 • TAMMUz / Av / ElUl 5774 / TISHREI 5775 Finding A Voice in the Chain BY SARIT HoRWITz AnD AlEx BRAvER, BJ RABBInIC FElloWS It is a blessing to have the open Pirkei Avot begins by describing how the Torah was first received, and how it began to be and honest space to speak about transmitted to others: “Moshe received the Torah from Sinai and transmitted it to Yehoshua, and theological challenges, a modern Yeshoshua transmitted it to the Elders…” Each person in the chain of transmission occupies a ‘‘ understanding of halakhah, or very sacred space, one of both reception and transmission. Yet Pirkei Avot clearly distinguishes how personal components of a difference between the words l’kabel and limsor (reception and transmission). Moshe received our lives intersect with the role the Torah from Sinai and transmitted it on to future generations. In many ways, rabbis treasure of a rabbi. ” this space that allows us to continuously learn and teach. The language used in Pirkei Avot particularly resonates with us as we develop our rabbinic identities. As BJ Rabbinic Fellows, we are able to constantly receive and teach Torah, making us a part of the ancient and beautiful line of transmission. Much of the Torah we receive comes from our relationship with the rabbis. Each week, the five of us sit together for an hour. We use part of the time to discuss whatever may be going on in Nigun Halev Teens Visit BJ our different areas of work, and part of the time is to help us cultivate a greater sense of who we are as rabbis. Certainly, in the beginning, many of the conversations were about officiate at b’nai mitzvah or conversions, or about best practices for a D’var Torah. But we’ve also been able to explore what it means to have a 21st century rabbinate; how we can try to engage people in prayer; and how can we incorporate music into our future communities. This past week, we discussed both how to lead a memorial service and what it means to be entrepreneurial as a rabbi. This is a space for us to explore different questions we have with the rabbis, drawing on their immense collective experience serving the Jewish people. Yet there’s also an acknowledgement that the transmission of Torah isn’t only in the tachlis and the “how-tos” of becoming a rabbi. We’re privileged with individual time with one rabbi each week where we are able to explore the individual, personal elements of becoming a rabbi. It is a blessing to have the open and honest space to speak about theological challenges, a modern understanding of halakhah, or how personal components of our lives intersect with our roles as Nigun Halev and BJ teens take a break from mapping the BJ cemetery. See pages 10-11 for rabbis. All of these conversations have been formative not only as Rabbinic Fellows, but also in story and more photos. who we are becoming as recipients and transmitters of Torah. (continued on page13) Social Action/Social Justice. 2-3 Community . 4, 6-7 inside: Membership . 5 Bringing Farmworkers to the Table .......................................................................... 2 Youth & Family Education . 8-9 Membership Renewal and High Holy Days Season is Here! ....................................... 5 Israel . 10-11 Oh, What a Night! ....................................................................................................... 6 Rabbi Marshall T. Meyer . 12-13 It’s a Teen Thing ........................................................................................................ 8 Announcements . 15 A Far-Flung Extended Family .................................................................................. 10 Contacts. 16 Rabbi Matalon Speaks at Marshall T. Meyer Exhibit and Conference ...................... 12 SANCTUARY: 257 West 88th Street • OFFICE: 270 West 89th Street, new York, nY 10024-1705 • TEl: 212.787.7600 • FAx: 212.496.7600 • WEBSITE: www.bj.org Kol HADASH. new voIce • SUMMER 2014 SOCIAl ACTION/SOCIAl JUSTICE Bringing Farmworkers to the Table: Expanding our Understanding of Ethical Consumption By Jennifer Hirsch and Channa Camins, Director of Social Action/Social Justice air trade, organic, cage-free or of reference for small group conversations f local—each trip to the supermarket about what counts as ethical eating. forces us to balance a cacophony of ethical claims. And yet, what about the over the course of the evening, we heard people who picked those apples, milked about the struggles of laborers that are the cows, or gathered the eggs? They are essential to new York’s multi-billion- invisible in most conversations about food dollar agricultural industry. In new York, ethics. We can buy food that demonstrates there are an estimated 80,000-100,000 our care for chickens, cows, workers migrant, seasonal and dairy farmworkers.1 on plantations in distant lands, or the This $4.7 billion industry is expanding, environment, but not for the workers on but most farmworkers are not reaping farms right here in new York State (nYS). the benefits. According to a 2007 Hudson valley Farmworker Report: “The need Workers are often dependent for subsistence income is so great that, on their employers for housing, for many farmworkers, it tends to be the transportation, heat and hot water. underlying incentive for their decisions “In these circumstances, human and often overrides other concerns about dignity and personal security are all their personal well-being.”2 This largely too frequently compromised if basic immigrant workforce, made up of both labor rights are not established. “ documented and undocumented laborers, is vulnerable to exploitation. Workers are Meanwhile, Paz shared her own personal Through its advocacy for the nYS often dependent on their employers for story. As a teenager, she left her indigenous Farmworker Fair labor Practices Act, housing, transportation, heat and hot water. community in oaxaca, Mexico, and found Panim el Panim’s Economic Justice Hevra In these circumstances, human dignity and herself picking fruits and vegetables in has created an opportunity for the BJ personal security are all too frequently fields across the United States, including community to use its collective power to compromised if basic labor rights are not new York. Paz worked at an adult pace, align our local food system with our Jewish established. shared overcrowded housing, and suffered ethics. physical and sexual abuse from supervisors Stories shared by Kennedy and Paz and contractors. Unfortunately, Paz’s on the evening of April 3, nearly 150 illustrated the daily problems faced by experience is not uncommon. Under current people filled the BJ sanctuary for the farmworkers. Kennedy spoke to us of federal laws, children as young as 12 years launch of BJ’s campaign in support of the unspeakably low wages and poor housing old may legally work in an industry where Farmworker Fair labor Practices Act. With conditions, illustrating her point with a they are exposed to all the dangers and Passover soon to come, Roly, Marcelo and story about meeting a man who worked indignities of large-scale agriculture.3 Felicia challenged us to see the connections 12 hours a day, seven days a week, for 10 between the struggle for farmworker years without a single day off. He was paid A legacy of the Jim Crow era, the Fair justice and our own passage from slavery minimum wage. And though he earned it, labor Standards Act (1938) and the to freedom. Human rights advocates he could not claim overtime pay. “overtime national labor Relations Act (1935)—two Kerry Kennedy and librada Paz spoke that would be paid to any deli worker in new transformative federal labor laws—exclude compellingly of the abject conditions faced York City,” she said. “If he tried to form a domestic workers and agricultural workers by farmworkers, not far from where we union, he could be fired.” from wage and hour laws, the right to comfortably sat. Tables laden with delicious collective bargaining, and many other basic nYS cheese, wine, apples and crackers protections. But there is reason for hope. provided sustenance and a concrete point 1. Worker Justice Center of new York, Work Place Safety, available at www.bj.org/farmworkerarticles 2. new York Civil liberties Union, 2013 legislative Memo from Bard College Migrant labor Project, The Hudson valley Farmworker Report: Understanding the needs and Aspirations of a voiceless Population 8 (2007), available at www.bj.org/farmworkerarticles 3. The Speak Truth to Power Defenders Curriculum, a project of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights available at www.bj.org/farmworkerarticles 2 SANCTUARY: 257 West 88th Street • OFFICE: 270 West 89th Street, new York, nY 10024-1705 • TEl: 212.787.7600 • FAx: 212.496.7600 • WEBSITE: www.bj.org TAMMUz / Av / ElUl 5774 / TISHREI 5775 • new voIce asj kue progress can address what we consider to accountable and demand that they act to be among the most racist laws in America. protect the most vulnerable members of our Agricultural workers, however, remain society. unprotected. According to some farmworker accounts, new York is a particularly hostile There is a long history of Jewish leadership climate, with active U.S. border patrol in the and involvement in the American labor western part of the state contributing to a movement. In fact, early in the 20th century, climate of fear and easy exploitation. Jewish garment workers in new York were pioneers in demanding a 40-hour workweek; Many BJ members remember Cesar Chavez minimum wage protections; the right to as a hero in the fight for migrant worker collective bargaining; and safe working justice. Many of us may even have stood in conditions. Today, Jews in America have solidarity with his movement, boycotting many opportunities. Though most of us no longer earn our living through manual labor, it does not mean that we should not stand with those who do.
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