Just one item: When the festivities are over, please watch 4 minutes of Gilad Kariv, a rabbi & Member of Knesset, venting holy outrage against his fellow MKs' inhumanity to the Palestinian people
Newletter #166
*A few night’s ago, MK Gilad Kariv, the first nonOrthodox rabbi elected to the Knesset, stood at his parliament’s podium and fiercely inveighed against his nation’s shameful perversion of the most sacred precepts of our Torah. In keeping with Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, Kariv’s searing moral indignation cast a harsh light on the multiple transgressions of his right wing colleagues — their “messianic fantasies,” coarsened hearts, rabid obsession with building Jewish settlements amidst 2.3 million Palestinians, and callous violation of “pikuach nefesh,” Judaism’s preeminent obligation to save human life.
Tonight, I have trouble saying Happy New Year in the face of all the suffering, misery and political madness happening right now in Israel, Gaza, and around the world. Instead, I wish you the strength, endurance, and courage required to stand up to tyranny and injustice however these iniquities may materialize in 2025.
If you haven't found the speech already, here's a direct link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5_vBhgyUI0
I would like to read his speech but find it nowhere! Letty, please share a link of Rabbi Gilad Kariv's speech for us in your newsletter and via the email blast you send out. Rabbi Moshe Levin San Francisco