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All Its Inhabitants: Living Under Israeli Jurisdiction

30 Wednesday Oct 2019

Posted by rabbijohnrosove in American Jewish Life, Book Recommendations, Ethics, Human rights, Israel and Palestine, Israel/Zionism, Jewish History, Jewish Identity, Social Justice, Women's Rights

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In the forthcoming book, Deepening the Dialogue: Israelis and American Jews Envision the Jewish-Democratic State (New York: CCAR Press, 2019), Rabbi Jill Jacobs and Rabbi Levi Kelman address the aspirational ethical treatment of all the inhabitants of the land of Israel as articulated in Israel’s Declaration of Independence (DOI).

I am a co-editor with Rabbi Stanley Davids of this unique book that includes 20 articles (chapters) based on Israel’s (DOI) of which Rabbis Jacobs and Kelman are two.

The articles are written by 10 leading Israeli and 10 leading American Jewish thought leaders addressing a wide variety of issues relative to the DOI. The book’s articles will all be translated into Hebrew and English and will be available in Israel and all English speaking countries. The book will be published before the Union for Reform Judaism’s Biennial Convention in Chicago (December 11-15).

This superb book is part of a project to bring Israelis and Diaspora Jews together to consider and discuss the fundamental issues concerning Israel’s democracy and pluralistic character as the homeland of the Jewish people.

I wrote a review of Rabbi’s Jacobs (Director of Terua: Rabbis for Human Rights in America) and Rabbi Levi Kelman (founder of Congregation Kol Haneshama and immediate past director of Israel’s Rabbis for Human Rights) for the Reform Judaism on-line website. You can find my review here – http://bit.ly/2BS5ZAl.

I urge you to purchase the book and read all 20 pieces. They are superbly written concerning what Israel is and aspires to be.

The settlers who beat me didn’t care that I am an observant Jew – Isaac Johnston 972 Magazine

25 Friday Oct 2019

Posted by rabbijohnrosove in Ethics, Human rights, Israel and Palestine, Israel/Zionism, Jewish History, Jewish Identity, Social Justice

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“The settlers of Yitzhar beat me with crowbars and threw a stone at my head that split open the skin. Then they set fire to the olive groves.”
 
Do read Isaac Johnston’s report of the attack near Yitzhar upon Rabbis for Human Rights demonstrators. My synagogue’s immediate past youth director was one of those attacked. Thankfully, she survived with only minor injuries.
This is a perfect example of sinat chinam – “baseless hatred” that the rabbis explained was the cause of the destruction of the 2nd Temple by Rome in 70 CE.
 
https://972mag.com/settlers-yitzhar-orthodox-burin/144101/

Trump’s Failure of Character

23 Wednesday Oct 2019

Posted by rabbijohnrosove in American Politics and Life, Ethics

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In watching Trump’s rapid moral and ethical demise relative to his behavior as President, I’ve thought much about what makes for an effective and ethical leader in politics and government, in business and the arts, in the non-profit sector and religion.

After spending 40 years as a congregational rabbi, I have learned that character is everything and that effective leadership depends on one’s maintenance of good character.

I offer my thoughts about those qualities of character that I believe are essential to great leadership. When measured against the character of President Trump, he fails miserably.

See my full statement on my blog at the Times of Israel – https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/trumps-failure-of-character/

Los Angeles County Jewish Voter Poll – 2019-2020

16 Wednesday Oct 2019

Posted by rabbijohnrosove in American Jewish Life, American Politics and Life, Israel/Zionism, Jewish History, Jewish Identity, Social Justice

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Los Angeles County constitutes the third largest concentration of Jews in the world after Israel and New York. A recent poll of Jews in LA County was recently released. See the findings here:

Click to access REVISED-FINAL-Key-Findings-Presentation-2019-PBI-LA-County-Jewish-Voter-Poll3.pdf

The Fox Hunt – A gripping tale

13 Sunday Oct 2019

Posted by rabbijohnrosove in Book Recommendations, Human rights, Jewish-Islamic Relations

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The Fox Hunt – A Memoir of Yemen and my Odyssey to America (Harper Collins: New York, 2018) reads like an action novel based in the fundamentalist and extremist Muslim world. It tells the odyssey of a young Yemeni Muslim man, Mohammed Al Samawi, who dared to challenge the template of anti-Christian and anti-Jewish attitudes in which he was raised and risked his life to escape his beloved country of birth in the midst of its murderous civil war in 2015.

To read my entire review, see my blog at the Times of Israel – https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-fox-hunt-a-gripping-tale/

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