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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.
Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat | Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | Earth, our Collective Home & Life-Support System | 🌐 Earth Day (22 April) | Ecotastrophes | Epidemics & Pandemics | Erev Pesaḥ | Erev Shabbat | Extracanonical Megillot | Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Hateful Intolerance, Prejudice, and Bigotry | 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th) | Yom haMabul (Day of the Flood, 17 Iyyar, Lev ba-Omer) | Yom haQeshet (Day of the Rainbow, 27 Iyyar) | Ḳaddish | Modern Miscellany | Mourning | Parashat Ḥayyei Sarah | Parashat Noaḥ | Haggadot for the Seder Leil Pesaḥ | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Shavuot | the Shema | Shulḥan Orekh | Torah Study | Sukkot | Symbolic Foods | Taanit Esther Readings | Tishah b'Av Readings | Seder Leil Rosh haShanah la-Ilanot (Tu biShvat) | Yeshayah (Isaiah) | Yom haḲeshet (27 Iyyar) Readings | Yom Kippur | Yom Kippur Readings
1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre | 2019 Israeli legislative election | 2020 coronavirus pandemic | 2020 United States racial reckoning | 59th Presidential Inauguration | Abrahamic | activism | activist | Aleph | American Jewry of the United States | anti-fascist Judaism | anti-Kahanist | Azazel | Bnei Yisrael and Yishmael | ברכות brakhot | ברית brit | candle lighting | communal | community organizing | Deuteronomy 11:13-21 | Deuteronomy 6:4 | eco-conscious | ecoḥasid | ecumenical prayers | אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah | English vernacular prayer | ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael | four worlds | global climate change | global warming | green ḥevrah | haggadah supplements | חרוסת ḥaroset | Hebrew translation | interbreathing | interconnectedness | interpretation as prayer | interpretive translation | Isaiah | Isaiah 57 | Isaiah 58 | Israeli-Jewish settler violence | Israelis and Palestinians | ירושלם Jerusalem | Jewish Renewal | קדיש דרבנן Ḳaddish D'Rabanan | קדיש יתום Mourner's Ḳaddish | כוונות kavvanot | kindling | ל״ג בעומר lag baomer | liberation | Maggidut | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | Memorial prayers | Midrashic interpretation | MLK | משיח Moshiaḥ | neo-lurianic | North America | Northampton | Numbers 15:37-41 | paraliturgical elohai neshamah | Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish | paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai | paraliturgical shema | participatory | peace | Philadelphia | Pnai Ohr | Pnai Or | Prayers as poems | prophetic revelation | Rainbow Day | recipes | reconstructing Judaism | Renewal | RRC | סגולות segulot | September 2020 Western United States wildfires | שבת נחמו Shabbat Naḥamu | פרשת נח Parashat Noaḥ | שמע shemaŋ | social justice | State v. Chauvin | symbolic foods | talmud torah | תחינות teḥinot | Temple Mount | United States | והיה אם שמע v'haya im shemo'a | water protectors | Yah Bishvat | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M.
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 Last Tishah b’Av: A Tale of New Temples, by Rabbi Arthur Ocean Waskow & Rabbi Phyllis Ocean Berman (2006)
Contributed on: 28 Jul 2014 by Arthur Waskow | Phyllis Berman | the Shalom Center | ❧
In Jewish tradition, on this very day of disaster Mashiaḥ (Messiah) was born, but hidden away till a generation would come that is ready to make peace and eco-social justice in the world. So this year, we offer this story of hope and redemption to be read by Jews and Muslims together on the fast day or for the evening break-fast when it ends. . . .
