
the Shalom Center
Founded by Arthur Waskow, the Shalom Center equips activists and spiritual leaders with awareness and skills needed to lead in shaping a transformed and transformative Judaism that can help create a world of peace, justice, healing for the earth, and respect for the interconnectedness of all life.
Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System | Ecotastrophes | Epidemics & Pandemics | Erev Shabbat | Extracanonical Megillot | Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry | Modern Miscellany | Mourning | Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Seder Leil Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Shavuot | Sukkot | Symbolic Foods | Taanit Esther Readings | the Shema | Tishah b'Av Readings | Torah Study | Yeshayah (Isaiah) | Yom Kippur | Yom Kippur Readings | Ḳaddish | Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat | Erev Pesaḥ | Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ | Parashat Ḥayyei Sarah | Parashat Noaḥ | Shulḥan Orekh | Yom haḲeshet (27 Iyyar) Readings | Yom haḲeshet (Day of the Rainbow, 27 Iyyar) | Yom haMabul (Day of the Flood, 17 Iyyar, Lev ba-Omer) | 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th) | 🌐 Earth Day (22 April)
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Sarah Barasch-Hagans | Yeshayahu ben Amōts | Phyllis Berman | Tamara Cohen | Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality | Marcia Falk | Jack Kessler (trōpification) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | Neohasid·org | Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) | David Seidenberg | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Arthur Waskow
💬 The Rainbow Haftarah by Rabbi Arthur Waskow, translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (1993)
Contributed by Jack Kessler (trōpification) | Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (translation) | Arthur Waskow | Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality | the Shalom Center | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation) | ❧
A declaration in 1993 by Rabbi Arthur Waskow in response to the impending danger of global warming and other ecotastrophes brought about by the callous harm of human industry and land use decisions. Translated by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. . . .