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A Haftarah for Martin Luther King Shabbat, by Rabbi Marcia Prager and Ḥazzan Jack Kessler

Contributor(s): Marcia Prager, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jack Kessler
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Modern, MLK Shabbat | Tags:

United States, social justice, civil rights, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Tsedek Tsedek Tirdof, Hafatarot, Cantillized readings in English

These quotations from Dr. King’s speeches were edited by Rabbi Marcia Prager and set to Haftarah Trop by Hazzan Jack Kessler. This adaptation was first published in Kerem (Fall 2014), in Jack Kessler’s article, “English Leyning: Bringing New Meaning to the Torah Service.” . . .

“I have a Dream” by Martin Luther King, Jr.: a Haftarah reading for MLK Shabbat with cantillation added by Rabbi David Evan Markus

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Martin Luther King, Jr. and David Evan Markus
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Modern, MLK Shabbat | Tags:

United States, social justice, civil rights, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Tsedek Tsedek Tirdof, Hafatarot, Cantillized readings in English

In 2017, Rabbi David Evan Markus prepared the end of Dr. King’s famous speech read at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (August 28, 1963) with trope (t’amim, cantillation). The following year on Facebook he shared a recording of the reading hosted on Soundcloud. Rabbi Markus writes, “This weekend at Temple Beth El of City Island, I offered the end of Dr. King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech, which I set to haftarah trope because I hold Dr. King to be a prophet. When my community applauded, I offered President Obama’s response, ‘Don’t clap: vote.’ And do more than vote: organize, donate, volunteer, help, heal, advocate. Only then, in Dr. King’s words quoting Isaiah 40:5, will ‘all flesh see it together.'” . . .

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