]> http://www.shalomctr.org/taxonomy/term/141/0 en http://www.shalomctr.org/node/1379 <p>By Rabbi Arthur Waskow</p> <p>When you live in a country that for a week has been transfixed by the furious denunciations of America by Pastor Jeremiah Wright and furious denunciations of Pastor Jeremiah by much of America --</p> <p>-- it is startling to read the original Jeremiah -- especially when his own furious denunciations of his own country are emblazoned for the special sacred Prophetic reading the same week. </p> <p>(In Jewish tradition, on each Shabbat is read a portion of the Torah [the "Five Books of Moses"] and a Prophetic passage chosen long ago by the rabbis to underline or sometimes confront the message of the Torah portion.)</p> Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:16:57 -0400