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One Month of Our Work

Submitted by Rabbi Arthur Waskow on

For the last month, letters have been coming in to us thanking us for the content and tone of our Shalom Reports and our other letters as Pesach  approached.
 
Those letters have stirred our souls, warmed our hearts, and stimulated our minds into new work for healing our deeply wounded Mother Earth. Thank you!
 
Yet few of those who wrote those letters have also helped out with the gifts of money that make our work possible. None of these letters that so many of you like could come to you unless we were paying bills of various sorts.
 
It occurred to me that while from your vantage point your gifts are just money, with no reality beyond the bank – from our standpoint your gifts are actually flesh, blood, mind, and spirit.
 
So I thought to let you know what the gifts actually mean in terms of my own time and schedule. Beginning on Monday, March 10, this was what made up my world:
 
March 10, 10:30 am to 2;30 pm, Nonviolent protest at Federal Bldg in Phila against plans for the Tar Sands Pipeline. I roll under police barricades to seek arrest; but police -- facing continuing nonviolence --   back off and stop making arrests.
 
March 11, writing & sending Shalom Report on the Tar Sands Pipeline protest.

T'ruah honors Reb Arthur as “Life-long Human Rights Hero”

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I’m writing on behalf of the Shalom Center Board to share exciting news: this coming March 25 in New York City, T’ruah: Rabbinic Voice for Human Rights will present Reb Arthur with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award as a “Hero of Human Rights.”

[From Arlene Goldbard, President, on behalf of the Board of The Shalom Center ]

It is a m’chayeh—a life-giving moment—for T’ruah to announce this just a week before the end of 2013, a year of great work and great impact for The Shalom Center. And you can make this moment into a m’chayeh for us all by right now making a donation to The Shalom Center which will count as a tax-deductible donation for 2013.
 
To do this, please click to <https://theshalomcenter.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1>
Your gift will make it possible for Reb Arthur and The Shalom Center to continue our “Life-time Achievements” into the future. He will thank and honor you with a personal inscription in the book, CD, or DVD that goes to you with our gratitude.

One of the most life-giving aspects of Reb Arthur’s work is

T'ruah honors Reb Arthur as “Life-long Human Rights Hero”

Submitted by Editor on

I’m writing on behalf of the Shalom Center Board to share exciting news: this coming March 25 in New York City, T’ruah: Rabbinic Voice for Human Rights will present Reb Arthur with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award as a “Hero of Human Rights.”

[From Arlene Goldbard, President, on behalf of the Board of The Shalom Center ]

It is a m’chayeh—a life-giving moment—for T’ruah to announce this just a week before the end of 2013, a year of great work and great impact for The Shalom Center. And you can make this moment into a m’chayeh for us all by right now making a donation to The Shalom Center which will count as a tax-deductible donation for 2013.
 
To do this, please click to <https://theshalomcenter.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=1>
Your gift will make it possible for Reb Arthur and The Shalom Center to continue our “Life-time Achievements” into the future. He will thank and honor you with a personal inscription in the book, CD, or DVD that goes to you with our gratitude.

One of the most life-giving aspects of Reb Arthur’s work is

Photos at the top of this Page

Submitted by Rabbi Arthur Waskow on

Each photo in the “merry-go-round” above is from a sacred moment in Shalom Center history. Let your cursor hover over any one of the photos: a brief description of the moment will appear.  Click on the title to add a comment.

ACTION to rebuke anti-Jewish threats in Catholic circles, and support Catholic nuns

Submitted by Rabbi Arthur Waskow on

Dear friends, 

 This is a letter about ACTION.  Action supporting nuns and other women who are under attack from the Catholic hierarchy, and ACTION to rebuke any recurrence of anti-Semitic threats from Catholics.

 Two weeks ago, I wrote you a Shalom Report letter criticizing the Catholic hierarchy’s attacks on the religious freedom of Catholic nuns and American women.

 That letter sparked a lot of excitement and debate, plus one response that was hostile and threatening. It came from Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League, threatening me or other Jews who might dare criticize the Catholic hierarchy.

[For additional  information on the national pro-and-con discussion that arose from the original article, including comments responding to those threats by Mayor Koch, R. David Saperstein, and Gloria Steinem, please click here. — AW]

Mr. Donohue justified his threat  by "quoting"  former Mayor Ed Koch.  But  Mayor Koch himself came forward to say that Mr. Donohue had utterly misstated  what Koch had said.

 For the sake of Heaven, for the dignity of the Church itself, and for the sake of comity in American society, all members of the Catholic Church need to know that this kind of rhetoric will not be tolerated by its official leaders.

 So I think the time has come for firm and gentle action. I want to ask you to join me in sending a firm and gentle letter to Archbishop Dolan of New York

I ask you to write Timothy Cardinal  Dolan, Archbishop of New York, through Joseph Zwilling, Director of Communications for the Archbishop, by emailing him at  communications@archny.org

 I ask you to remind him that “No religion is an island,“ as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught; to urge him

FULL UP: "This is What 80 Looks Like"

FULL UP!!

Sorry, all spaces for both the Dinner and Honor Event are now full. We will be able to admit ONLY pre-registered people.


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Gloria Steinem & Reb Arthur

Sunday, November 3, Mishkan Shalom, Philadelphia

Dine with and honor Gloria & Reb Arthur! Pre-registration required:

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The (Re) New Shalom Center, 2005

Submitted by Rabbi Arthur Waskow on

Rabbi Arthur Waskow, 8/04/2005

Dear Kallahniks,
It was a joy to share with you the wonderful Kallah. I am writing to pick up on the announcements you heard of the new independent status of The Shalom Center and to ask for your help in getting started.

(Also in the P.S. I want to let you know how remarkable an unplanned miracle was Imam Fuad El-Bailey's blessing of us in the service just before the smikha ceremony Wednesday evening. More a miracle that most of us knew!)

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