]> http://www.shalomctr.org/taxonomy/term/19/0 en http://www.shalomctr.org/node/1392 <p>May 1, 2008 is Yom HaShoah (the Day of Remembrance of the Nazi Holocaust), observed one day earlier in the Jewish calendar than usual, because of not wanting to observe it on Friday as Shabbat is coming into the world. </p> <p>It seems especially fitting to use as the Mourners Kaddish for today a rendition in Aramaic, Hebrew, and English of the MOURNERS' KADDISH IN TIME OF WAR AND VIOLENCE that we at The Shalom Center have developed.(See three paragraphs below). Though it is of course a Jewish prayer, we offer the interpretive English translation below, in the hope it may be spiritually helpful for many people of many other traditions as well.</p> Thu, 01 May 2008 23:19:33 -0400 http://www.shalomctr.org/node/1446 <p>[This urgent report by Amnesty International was circulated by Rabbis for Human Rights in Israel. Please note that the Israeli government is refusing to allow refugees from Darfur and other African countries where they are being oppressed to get any due process for review of their pleas for asylum in Israel. American Jewish groups that have close connections with the Israeli government and that claim to be opposing genocidal attacks in Darfur might want to take action on this matter. For action possibilities, see the end of the report. -- ED. NOTE by Rabbi Arthur Waskow.]</p> <p> AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL</p> Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:12:56 -0400 http://www.shalomctr.org/node/905 <p>Rabbi Mordechai Liebling/ Abrahamic Religious Delegation, 6/29/2005<br /> Dear Friends,</p> <p>In May, I received a phone call from Rev. (and former Congressman) Walter Fauntroy, inviting me as director of The Shalom Center to join a multireligious delegation that would very soon visit the Sudan to work for peace and an end to the violence in Darfur.</p> <p>I very much wanted to go, but my responsibilities as director of The Shalom Center were especially intense. I did not think The Shalom Center could afford for me to be away for two weeks.</p> <p>I decided to ask Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, director of the Torah of Money project of The Shefa Fund, former director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation , and chair of the Board of The Shalom Center, to go, in part representing The Shalom Center.</p> Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:32:48 -0400 http://www.shalomctr.org/node/803 <p>Imam A. Rasheid Omar, 2/7/2005</p> <p>In the Name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Dispenser of Grace<br /> A Belated Muslim Response to the Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur</p> <p>Imam A. Rashied Omar</p> <p>We are indeed living in stressful times. Never before in our co</p> Mon, 07 Feb 2005 01:00:00 -0500