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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.
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)
Abrahamic | activism | activist | Aleph | American Jewry of the United States | anti-fascist Judaism | anti-Kahanist | Azazel | Bnei Yisrael and Yishmael | candle lighting | communal | community organizing | eco-conscious | ecumenical prayers | English vernacular prayer | four worlds | global climate change | global warming | haggadah supplements | Hebrew translation | inaugurations | interbreathing | interconnectedness | interpretation as prayer | interpretive translation | Isaiah | Israeli-Jewish settler violence | Israelis and Palestinians | Jewish Renewal | kindling | liberation | Maggidut | Memorial prayers | Midrashic interpretation | MLK | neo-lurianic | North America | Northampton | paraliturgical elohai neshamah | Paraliturgical Mourner's Kaddish | paraliturgical shema | participatory | peace | Philadelphia | Pnai Ohr | Pnai Or | Prayers as poems | prophetic revelation | Rainbow Day | recipes | reconstructing Judaism | Renewal | RRC | social justice | State v. Chauvin | symbolic foods | talmud torah | Temple Mount | United States | water protectors | Yah Bishvat | ecoḥasid | green ḥevrah | paraliturgical nishmat kol ḥai | אלהי נשמה Elohai neshamah | ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael | ברית brit | ברכות brakhot | והיה אם שמע v'haya im shemo'a | חרוסת ḥaroset | ירושלם Jerusalem | כוונות kavvanot | ל״ג בעומר lag baomer | מדינת ישראל Medinat Yisrael | משיח Moshiaḥ | סגולות segulot | פרשת נח Parashat Noaḥ | קדיש דרבנן Ḳaddish D'Rabanan | קדיש יתום Mourner's Ḳaddish | שבת נחמו Shabbat Naḥamu | שמע shemaŋ | תחינות teḥinot | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | Isaiah 57 | 58th century A.M. | Isaiah 58 | 59th Presidential Inauguration | Deuteronomy 6:4 | Deuteronomy 11:13-21 | Numbers 15:37-41 | 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre | 2019 Israeli legislative election | 2020 coronavirus pandemic | 2020 United States racial reckoning | September 2020 Western United States wildfires
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 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. . . .
