Waking up to the morning news today, I thought of a D’var Torah from a couple months back, written by Rabbi Michael Shire of Leo Baeck College for Parsha Vayikra: How can we say anything in the face of daily outrages on all sides [in the regions of conflict around the world]? Why should we [...]
On a very cold December evening in Glasgow over 70 people gathered to mark the 1st anniversary of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead – the 22 day assault on Gaza which resulted in the deaths of over 1400 Palestinians, thousand of injuries and the wholesale destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure. The candlelit vigil was jointly called by [...]
I haven’t known what to say, except my very meager two pence: There is no way, there is no way it’s acceptable to kill civilians on this kind of scale. There has got to be another way.
