A Jewish commune and lessons of sharing
Avishay Artsy
June 19, 2015
One of the hardest lessons to teach a young child is the value of sharing.
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June 19, 2015
Families of South Carolina church massacre victims offer forgiveness
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2015
Relatives of some of the nine black people gunned down while they studied the Bible at a historic South Carolina church offered tearful words of forgiveness on Friday to the 21-year-old white man charged with murdering their loved ones.
An open letter to President Obama: This is a moral emergency
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2015
I appreciate your comments on the “heartache and the sadness and the anger” that many Americans are feeling after the shooting of nine African-American congregants at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Father’s Day: The allure of fishing
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2015
My father and I were fishing a snowmelt lake in the High Sierra, and I was on the shore, deciding whether I should throw back the little trout I’d just caught
An attack against one is an attack against all
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2015
Following are the remarks Zoe Klein, senior rabbi at Temple Isaiah in Los angeles, delivered at a memorial for the victims of the Charleston shooting held June 18 at First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles.
First AME Church Vigil marked by rousing sermons by L.A. clergy, civic leaders of all denominations
Aron Chilewich
June 19, 2015
On Thursday evening, as the country began to mourn the nine African Americans murdered one day before by a white gunman at a Bible study session at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina, people of all faiths and races joined with congregants of First AME Church in South Los Angeles for an emotional, and, at times rousing prayer vigil.
Death in Charleston: Trapped by the tragic, unheeded lessons of the nation’s racial past
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2015
America\’s latest incident of racial violence, the massacre of nine people at historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., echoes some of the horrific scenes out of the civil-rights era.
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