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Dear Friends,
 These are
dark and difficult times for the Jewish people. For most of us, this
is the first time in our lives that Israel’s security has been so
severely and so brutally challenged. We’re all equally troubled and
equally perplexed. We seek answers to questions we don’t even know how
to ask. We look for comfort and each time we think we may have found
it, another terrible event occurs. We yearn for a solution – we yearn
for shalom.
It’s important for us to maintain our perspective.
It’s too easy to hate. We must be steadfast in our positions, but
compassionate in our deeds. There will undoubtedly be a lot of
posturing on campus during the remaining weeks of the semester. Campus
dailies will be filled with the opinions of extremists who will make
all sorts of accusations. Rather than get enticed by hyperbole and
emotional rhetoric, I believe it’s our duty to represent ourselves
civilly, yet firmly.
At our sedarim, we just concluded with the
story of the redemption of our people from slavery and recited the
words L’shanah haba’ah b’Yerushalyim - - Next Year in
Jerusalem. As our hearts go out to victims of the terror and violence
which has engulfed our Homeland, we now pray for a Pesach L’Atid
– a future Pesach – where we will again be redeemed from
tyranny and hate, and where we will again say with confidence,
L’shana haba’ah b’Yerushalayim.
Richard S. Moline
KOACH Director
The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
P.S. To keep in touch with the latest
developments, I have found this site very helpful:
www.kolisrael.com.
Posted April 2, 2002 |
