Jewish Relationships Initiative

Category: Peace

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  • Shabbat Shalom- a prayer for peace

    Sting brings back an old and sadly timely tune, a prayer for peace,

    May the Russians love their children too

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Do not stand idly by


    Do not stand idly by while your neighbor’s blood is being shed- Lev 19:16

    There is something we can do; Contribute to the organizations on the ground aiding the victims of war.  Choose from among many humanitarian groups trying to ease the suffering.  Consider a donation to Doctors without Borders; HIAS, JDC, World Central Kitchen.  Everything helps, no amount is too small.  Thank you.

     

  • Shabbat Shalom- praying for peace

    Oseh Shalom Bimromav, Hu YaAseh Shalom Aleinu

    v’ akol Yisrael, V’akol yoshvei tevel

    V’imru Amen

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Shabbat Shalom

    In our evening service, we pray that God takes us in a loving embrace to keep and protect us through the night.  We pray for peace.

    Cantor Azi Schwartz offers this beautiful melody.

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Shabbat Shalom

    As we welcome Shabbat, the need for love, unity, and hope is greater than ever.

    The USA Africa song We Are The World is the clarion call that still resonates.

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Shabbat Shalom

    Leon Sher takes the simple prayer of Moses on behalf of his sister Miriam and creates a moment we all need heading into this Shabbat. Shireinu Choir of Long Island offers this gift to us.

    Wishing everyone Shabbat Shalom- a Shabbat of Peace, wholeness, and healing.

     

  • Shabbat Shalom

    Oseh Shalom, the conclusion to Kaddish prayers, is our wish for peace.

    Pardes brings us into this space, helping us welcome Shabbat and towards the end, giving a unique upbeat twist as Daniel Ahviel brings his fiddle onto the stage.

    Shabbat Shalom

     

  • Shabbat Shalom

    Cat Stevens/Yusuf Salam created Peace Train.  Here he shares this beautiful music with Playing for Change.

    Shabbat Shalom

  • Shabbat Shalom and a Happy New Year

    As 2021 comes to a close this Shabbat, 2022 begins. I share Amanda Gorman’s extraordinary poem, New Day’s Lyric.  As we leave the old year behind, may we be open to the possibilities that the new year can bring. Shabbat Shalom and Happy New Year.

     

     

    “New Day’s Lyric”

    May this be the day
    We come together.
    Mourning, we come to mend,
    Withered, we come to weather,
    Torn, we come to tend,
    Battered, we come to better.
    Tethered by this year of yearning,
    We are learning
    That though we weren’t ready for this,
    We have been readied by it.
    We steadily vow that no matter
    How we are weighed down,
    We must always pave a way forward.

    This hope is our door, our portal.
    Even if we never get back to normal,
    Someday we can venture beyond it,
    To leave the known and take the first steps.
    So let us not return to what was normal,
    But reach toward what is next.

    What was cursed, we will cure.
    What was plagued, we will prove pure.
    Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,
    Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,
    Where we weren’t aware, we’re now awake;
    Those moments we missed
    Are now these moments we make,
    The moments we meet,
    And our hearts, once all together beaten,
    Now all together beat.

    Come, look up with kindness yet,
    For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.
    We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,
    But to take on tomorrow.

    We heed this old spirit,
    In a new day’s lyric,
    In our hearts, we hear it:
    For auld lang syne, my dear,
    For auld lang syne.
    Be bold, sang Time this year,
    Be bold, sang Time,
    For when you honor yesterday,
    Tomorrow ye will find.
    Know what we’ve fought
    Need not be forgot nor for none.
    It defines us, binds us as one,
    Come over, join this day just begun.
    For wherever we come together,
    We will forever overcome.