Kesher Talk

Josh Chafetz has a great suggestion. Which I endorse with much feeling, since I get lots of unwanted email from the Shalom Center. Trying to get off their email list is practically impossible, and they crosspost to many Jewish lists, so everywhere you go, there they are. Arthur Waskow, the somewhat prolix author of these emails, is a dear man whom I respect deeply, who is worth 50 Michael Lerners, who has done and will yet do much good in the world, whose writings are wonderful sources of Jewish vitality and renewal. But I have two problems with him:
1) I don't want to get 4 duplicates of 5 emails from him every week announcing political protests.
2) He is full of shit on the war on Iraq.

So Arthur & Co. placed a full-page ad in several newspapers urging everyone to email Jewish leaders to denounce the war (and hijacking quotes by King and Heschel on Vietnam that have no parallel to Iraq). If you, however, believe the war is the least bad of all the alternatives, you can use one of these letter templates provided by Josh of Oxblog to email those same leaders and tell them so.

UPDATES: More recent posts on Jews in the antiwar movement here, here, and here. My essay about the antiwar movement and A.N.S.W.E.R. is here.

posted by Judith @ 1/26/2003 09:00:33 AM