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"As long as we have guns readily
available, then we have not yet, as
humankind, achieved sanity in this
world," said Lois Shallit, executive
director of the New York City chapter
of Hadassah, the Women's- Zionist
Organization of America. Two days
before her younger son's bar mitzvah
in 1990, her oldest son, David Tzvi,
was shot to death during a robbery by
six teenagers.
"We had a bar mitzvah on Saturday
and a funeral on Sunday," Shallit said.
Chapter members will be in
Washington, marching in memory of
David. As the largest Jewish women's
organization in the country, Hadassah
leaders consider it a responsibility to
participate in the Million Mom
March.
"Could I quote you a [biblical] text
about guns? Probably not," said Tana
Senn, director of Hadassah's National
American Affairs/Domestic Policy
Department. "But it's inherently
Jewish to want to protect the Jewish
community and communities at
large."
Gail Powers, Million Mom March
regional coordinator for California,
Nevada and Arizona, said her son,
Nathan, did not suffer any physical
wounds when he escaped the North
Valley JCC shooting unharmed, but
his emotional scars have not yet
healed. "I didn't get involved until this
happened in my back yard," Powers
said.
Being of service to one's communi-
ty and tikkun olam, which means
repairing the world, "are Jewish values
that I learned late in life. I'd like to
give those values to my children." ❑

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lUrillion Mom March literature
states:
• in 1997, a child was killed with
a handgun every two hours.
• 86 percent of gun deaths in the
world, of children under age 15,
take place in the United States.
From Dr. Harold J. Burbach,
Curry School of Education at the
University of Virginia:
If you have a gun in the house:
• You are eight times more likely
to be killed by or to kill a family
member or intimate acquaintance.
• You are three times more likely
to be killed or kill someone in

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Mg for," says Baum-Margolis.
The march, which is actually a
rally, will begin with an interfaith ser-
vice and continue into a program of
speeches, activities and performances.
Although endorsed by organiza-
tions and individuals of all ages, races,
religions and political backgrounds,
the march is sanctioned by many
Jewish organizations. They include:
Hadassah, American Jewish Congress,
American Jewish Committee, Jewish
Women International, Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations of
America, Jewish Community Centers
Associations of America, Women of
Reform Judaism, North American
Federation of Temple Brotherhoods,
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, National Council of
Jewish Women and the Central
Conference of American Rabbis.

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Religious Obligation

As the only religious speaker invited to
present at the march, Rabbi Eric H.
Yoffie, president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations in
New York, says, "I am pleased to serve
that role, but would not be unhappy if
others spoke as well. Control of guns
is not, and should not be; seen only as
one more political issue. It is very
much a religious question — really it
is a solemn, religious obligation.
"Our gun-flooded society has
turned weapons into idols and the
worship of idols must be recognized
for what it is — blasphemy. The only
appropriate religious response to idola-
try is sustained moral outrage," he says.
Independent of the march, Rabbi
Yoffie presented the issue of ending
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