A Sabbath of Solidarity
October 16, 2015 -- New York, NY: Rabbis and leaders of the four largest Jewish religious streams in the United States -- Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Reconstructionist -- have endorsed plans to declare this Sabbath, which begins tonight at sundown, a "Shabbat of Solidarity with Israel."
Rabbis and synagogue leaders have been asked to add special prayers in addition to the prayer for the State of Israel in their Sabbath services and to address, from the pulpit, the rising lethal violence in Jerusalem and in
neighboring communities.
People are also being asked to keep in touch with their friends and relatives in Israel.
Acts of violence against innocent civilians can never be condoned. Both Israelis and Palestinians suffer as a consequence. This is not the way.