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From Rabbi Rick Schechter # Not in My Name Levent Akbarut Is a Muslim American Whose I Think All of Us Gathered That Family Is Originally from Turkey December 2015 Kislev / Tevet 5776 Issue Highlights From the Rabbi # Not In My Name Cantor’s Voice Hanukah Music President’s Message Hardships Bring Blessings into Focus B’nai Mitzvah Profile Salome Goldberg Save the Dates Friday, December 4 @6 pm Family Shabbat Dinner followed by Family Shabbat and Annual Campership Service @7 pm Sunday, December 6 @10 am Journey Through the Bible with Rabbi Rick Schechter "The Original Game of Thrones: David and Saul" The return of Shabbat in the Round (during Hanukkah) Thursday, December 10 @12 pm Lunch and Learn with the Rabbi A New Shabbat Experience at Temple Sinai Sunday December 13 @5.30 pm Friday, December 11 at 7:30 p.m. Hannukah Dinner and Party in the Social Hall Saturday, December 19 @10 am Celebrate the 6th night of Hanukkah and Shabbat! 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Levent is a member of the Levent and the Muslim Islamic Congregation of La Cañada. I have community feel about the known him for close to 10 years and deeply reprehensible, murderous actions of those who value his friendship. have twisted the teachings of Islam to fit their violent and oppressive ideology. Indeed, most This summer when I learned that Levent was Muslims mourn and condemn this senseless invited to speak at the annual Community Interfaith Thanksgiving Service, sponsored by violence, fanaticism, and taking of human life the Glendale Religious Leaders Association just as non-Muslims do. (of which we are both members), I Extremism is found in all religions, immediately replied that I would like Temple regrettably. Violent extremism is not limited Sinai to host the event. I thought it profoundly to Islam. Judaism has had its share of violent important to have a Muslim speaking from radicals and extremists. Just 20 years ago last our bimah as well as to invite the Muslim month, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin community of our area to our Jewish was murdered by a Jewish extremist who community—for warm embrace and considered Rabin a “traitor” for making peace friendship, along with Christian and other with the Palestinians. One year prior to that, a faith communities of the Glendale/Foothills Jewish radical walked into a mosque in area. Hebron, Israel, which is attached to the Jewish holy site of the Cave of the Patriarchs (where As it happened, the annual interfaith gathering occurred less than one week after the horrific Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, and Jacob and Leah are purported to be buried), Paris terrorist attacks, which took the lives of and he gunned down 29 innocent Arabs at at least 130 people and injured over 350 prayer and wounded 125 others. others. As we got closer to the event, I wondered if and how Levent would address Most in the Jewish world were shocked and the tragedy in his remarks. He did not outraged—and condemned that horrific disappoint. His remarks were thoughtful, violence. moving, and eloquent. Speaking to the Obviously prerequisite for any religious ongoing ruthless violence perpetrated on community’s skillful response to violence and innocent civilians around the world by Islamic abuse in its midst are honesty, reflection, and extremists, Levent paused and said, “Not in actions to transform the situation. my name. Not in my name. Not in my name.” Continued December 2015 The Scribe P a g e | 5 From Rabbi Rick Schechter that somehow they can kill innocent people While in Turkey, President Barack Obama and that that is justified by religion. And to wisely said soon after the Paris attacks, “To some degree, that is something that has to the degree that anyone would equate the come from within the Muslim community terrible actions that took place in Paris with itself. And I think there have been times the views of Islam, those kinds of stereotypes where there has not been enough pushback are counterproductive. They’re wrong. They against extremism. There’s been pushback— will lead, I think, to greater recruitment into there are some who say, well, we don’t terrorist organizations over time if this believe in violence, but are not as willing to becomes somehow defined as a Muslim challenge some of the extremist thoughts or problem as opposed to a terrorist problem.” rationales for why Muslims feel oppressed. And I think those ideas have to be “Now, what is also true,” President Obama challenged.” Challenged and transformed. then said, “is that the most vicious terrorist organizations at the moment are ones that This month, as we enter the Jewish festival of claim to be speaking on behalf of true lights with Hanukkah—and Christmas for Muslims. And I do think that Muslims around Christians, Kwanzaa for African Americans, the world—religious leaders, political leaders, and Diwali, the festival of lights for Hindus, ordinary people—have to ask very serious Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists which occurred questions about how did these extremist last month—I pray that all people help light ideologies take root, even if it’s only affecting up this darkness of hatred, intolerance, and a very small fraction of the population. It is irrational fear of the other (xenophobia) with real and it is dangerous. And it has built up the illuminating glow of understanding and over time, and with social media it has now wisdom, justice and compassion, and human accelerated.” respect and dignity.
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