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From the Rabbi's Desk Presidential Responsibility Whoever is elected President of the United States on November
2 will have the awesome
responsibility of using America’s power to maintain some kind of
stability in the world. My
conviction is that we do not so much need democracy in the world patterned
after the sort of
society that we in the U.S. call democracy, but rather a respect for the
humanity in the
world’s societies that will enable us to live together in mutual
trust. Now that we have We also owe future generations a world in which nature has not been despoiled beyond redemption. There is a rabbinic story relating that a boat carrying people was fording a river when suddenly one of the passengers began to bore a hole in the bottom of the vessel. Another passenger began to admonish the foolish driller that if he continued, the boat would sink, but the man with the auger protested that after all he was only drilling a hole under his own seat. Sadly, the boat we call earth is being drilled, chopped, blasted, burned and pummeled for short-term profit with not enough regard for long-term stewardship of our finite wealth. In another vein, I will be offering a course for prospective converts on Shabbat afternoons beginning in January. For November I would like to offer a four-session course after Shabbat morning services dealing with Key Characters in Modern American-Jewish Literature. The writers I will be discussing and reading from are Henry Roth, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, Chaim Potok, Saul Bellow, and possibly others. I hope that many of you can stay and enjoy. ~ Rabbi Harold Spivack Excerpted from the November 2004 bulletin (PDF)
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