Announcing the publication of
Peace in Our Cities: Rabbis Against Gun Violence.
With a Foreword by Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Executive Director of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights; Introduction
by Pastor Michael McBride, Director, PICO Network’s Lifelines to Healing
Campaign and spiritual leader of The Way Christian Center in Berkeley, CA; an Afterword
by Teny Oded Gross, Executive Director, Institute for the Practice and
Study of Nonviolence; and edited by Rabbi Menachem Creditor, the
spiritual leader of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, CA.
On January 29, 2013, nine rabbis
from across the United States joined the Pico Networks Lifelines to Healing
Clergy gathering at the White House. More than 80 faith leaders raised up their
voices and prayers for a moral response to the scourge of gun violence plaguing
the country, especially in the inner-cities. From that gathering, Peace in
Our Cities: Rabbis Against Gun Violence was born.
The collection of 21 essays,
by some of the leading voices in rabbinic social justice, including Rabbi David Baum call for the recognition that we cannot stand
idly by in a country where thousands of people lose their lives to gun violence
each year.
The prophet Jeremiah told the weary
and heart-broken exiles of Jerusalem that they should "seek the peace of
the city." Rabbis, along with faith leaders of every tradition, teach that
a broken society is one in which we fail to take care of others. This book asks
some very hard questions of America in the midst of a Gun Violence epidemic,
and presents a passionate, hopeful, healing response to a moment of national
pain and fragility. The rabbis in this collection ask: How many innocent deaths
will it take for our elected officials to respond with moral conviction? How
long must America wait to acknowledge that we lose 30+ American lives to Gun
Violence every day, scarring our national life? How many tears must be shed?
Learn, connect, and be inspired with the voices of today's rabbinic
leaders.
Available
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