For NSP–Network of Spiritual Progressives currently paid-up members, Tikkun subscribers and Beyt Tikkun members.
With Uri Avnery calling in from Tel Aviv (Avnery is the chair of the Israeli peace movement Gush Shalom), Rabbi Michael Lerner, and Cat Zavis (executive director of the Network of Spiritual Progressives).Please note that because circuits from Israel may be impossible to access (often the case, particularly during the current crisis, Avnery may not be able to reach us, though he intends to be on this call). Of course the discussion of the Israel/Gaza war will be carried on nevertheless. We urge you to read the Tikkun website and check out the articles about this before getting on the call. We plan to have time for some grieving the horrendous killings and destruction going on–a heart focus–as well as serious analysis of what is happening and our tasks in the face of the ongoing slaughter of the innocents.
DATE: Friday, July 25th
TIME: 2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time /11 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time.
Because of limits on space, this call is for currently paid up members of the Network of Spiritual Progressives (you are paid up if you received the Spring 2014 issue of Tikkun with the article on Pope Francis and Christian Renewal and the set of articles on “Does America Need a Left?”) and current Subscribers to Tikkun, and members of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue-Without-Walls in Berkeley, CA. (You may join the call if you join or renew membership in the NSP today).
Please email Rabbi Michael Lerner at rabbilerner.tikkun@gmail.com if you would like to RSVP.
Please have a simultaneous conference call on the anti-Semitism exploding in the Muslim world. Our Jewish brothers and sisters are under attack by Muslim fanatics in France and Turkey. Mobs in Paris are attacking defenseless Jews and synagogues. French Muslims have already murdered Jews in Belgium and France. In Turkey, the fascist Prime Minister Erdogan is inciting crowds by demonizing “Zionists.” He knows many Turks are anti-Semites and is appealing to their basest emotions. The Turkish Jewish community is a very small one, and have already been massacred in their shuls. I beg all Tikkunites to demand that world leaders and the UN should warn the Muslim anti-Semites to not dare touch Jews.
Please have a simultaneous conference call on the anti-Semitism exploding in the Muslim world. Our Jewish brothers and sisters are under attack by Muslim fanatics in France and Turkey. Mobs in Paris are attacking defenseless Jews and synagogues. French Muslims have already murdered Jews in Belgium and France. In Turkey, the fascist Prime Minister Erdogan is inciting crowds by demonizing “Zionists.” He knows many Turks are anti-Semites and is appealing to their basest emotions. The Turkish Jewish community is a very small one, and has already been massacred in its shuls. I beg all Tikkunites to demand that world leaders and the UN should warn the Muslim anti-Semites to not dare touch Jews.
Will you include Hamas leaders on the conference call? They can be reached in the safety a Doha, Qatar