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High Holiday Sermons
To Support Peace
New York (JTA) — Supporters of the letter was personally enthu-
the Middle East peace process siastic but afraid that it would be
have launched a campaign to en- too politically sensitive among his
courage rabbis to use their pul- constituents.
The $15,000 cost of producing
pits on the High Holidays to
praise the recent steps Israel has and distributing the resource
guide was paid for by private do-
taken with its Arab neighbors.
The Israel Policy Forum, a nations raised by the Israel Pol-
North American group advocat- icy Forum to underwrite the
ing the peace process, has sent to project.
In the Torah portion read dur-
4,000 rabbis and rabbinical stu-
dents from every religious move- ing Rosh Hashanah, Isaac and
ment a resource guide drawing Ishmael, progenitors of the Jew-
on biblical, rabbinic and contem- ish and Arab peoples are intro-
porary sources supporting peace. duced as they bury their father,
`The peace process can't be ig- the patriarch Abraham.
"Recent events promise corn-
nored," said Gordon Tucker, rab-
bi of Temple Israel, a ing together not for a burial, but
Conservative congregation in
White Plains, N.Y.
Titled "Mipnei Darchei
Shalom," or "For the Sake of
Peace," it cites Jewish voices from
the prophet Isaiah to Abraham
Joshua Heschel, from Rabbi Hil-
lel to former Israeli Prime Min-
ister Menachem Begin, in
support of peace.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin endorsed the project say-
ing, in a letter enclosed with the
booklet, that he encourages rab- for the renewal of life. That
bis to use the material "to edu- promise is very much part of the
cate our fellow Jews to act in High Holy Day spirit," said Sandy
accordance with Jewish values." Eisenberg Sasso, rabbi of the Re-
The Israel Policy Forum un- constructionist/Conservative con-
dertook the effort "to bring the gregation Beth El Zedeck in
peace process into religious com- Indianapolis.
Both she and Mr. Tucker
munities," said Jonathan Jaco-
by, executive vice president of the signed onto the cover letter.
In a related effort, the Reform
group.
movement's Commission on So-
"Rabbis are one of the most im- cial Action sent to each of its 860
portant groups of leaders in the affiliated rabbis a memo urging
American Jewish community and them to speak from the pulpit
no other leader is in as close touch about peace in the Middle East
with as many American Jews as and seek out local Christian and
a rabbi," he said.
Muslim clergy to issue a state-
The resource guide includes ment about the common goal of
four articles — three of them by peace.
Orthodox Jews — addressing as-
pects of the peace process.
The articles are by Avraham
Burg, a Labor member of Knes-
set; Rav Yehuda Amital, who
leads the Orthodox Har Etzion
Yeshiva; Rav Ovadia Yosef, the Lodz, Poland (JTA) — Com-
former chief Sephardic rabbi of memorating the 50th anniver-
Israel and spiritual leader of the sary of the brutal liquidation of
Shas political party; and Rabbi the Lodz ghetto, Jewish officials
Ammiel Hirsch, executive direc- opened a Jewish youth club here
tor of the Association of Reform this week.
Zionists in America.
Rabbi Michael Schudrich, an
A cover letter introducing the American who is the director in
packet was signed by 13 rabbis Poland of the Ronald S. Lauder
from the Conservative, Recon- Foundation, was instrumental in
structionist and Reform move- opening this club.
Jewish leaders in Lodz, a city
ments.
Mr. Jacoby said that "it is dis- that once had a thriving Jewish
appointing that no Orthodox rab- community known worldwide,
bis signed the letter," but that addressed a gathering that in-
response to the mailing had been cluded numerous guests and (
"very positive' in the Orthodox young people.
Simcha Keller, a cantor from
community.
One Orthodox rabbi who was Warsaw, performed at the club's
approached about signing onto opening.
One Orthodox rabbi
was afraid that it
would be too
politically sensitive
among his
constituents.
A Jewish Club
Opens In Lodz
(