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Roots

November 10, 2019/in Featured, News

What an amazing program! Thank you Roots for speaking with us about your organization and work.

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from https://jewishlouisville.org/building-trust-settler-rabbi-palestinian-talk-roots-at-temple/

Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger, a West Bank settler, lives less than a mile from his Palestinian neighbors, but they might as well be a world apart.
Despite the close proximity, their two communities share virtually nothing.
They drive cars with different license plates (blue for Israel, green for Palestine).
They have different garbage collectors.
Different schools.
Different holidays.
Different media.
They even live in different time zones. They switch to and from daylight savings time on their own schedules, meaning Jews and Arabs could be on the same street and have different times on their watches.
“We’re so close together, but so far apart,” Schlesinger said. “There’s no connection, and that means there’s going to be bigotry; there’s going to be stereotypes; there’s going to be racism, and there’s going to be hate.”
He said there’s “no piece of earth” that is common to both sides. “Every piece is either theirs or ours. There’s no place to meet.”
Yet for two hours on Sunday, Nov. 10, at The Temple, Schlesinger, an Orthodox rabbi from Gush Etzion, and Shadi Abu Awwad, a 27-year-old Palestinian educator from Beit Ummar, both on the West Bank, did meet, sharing a pulpit as they described how they are trying to bring Jews and Arabs together on “one piece of earth” to share their stories, build trust and lay the foundation for an eventual peace.
Schlesinger and Awwad are members of Roots, a grassroots organization (no pun intended) consisting of West Bank settlers and Palestinians who have agreed to come together and seek the common ground they can’t find in their daily lives.
The Temple, Temple Shalom, the Jewish Community Relations Council, Interfaith Paths to Peace and the Middletown Christian Church sponsored their visit, which included programs at St. Francis School downtown and the Muhammad Ali Center.
Founded in 2014, Roots uses workshops, summer camps and youth programs to promote its message. It also engages media and leaders – activists, city officials, soldiers.
Speaking before a crowd of 200 or more in The Temple chapel, the word “roots” in English, Hebrew and Arabic projected on a screen behind them, Schlesinger and Awwad described how Roots participants meet regularly on land provided by Awwad’s family. They’re nervous at first, even fearful. Yet they manage to strike up conversations with people who had previously been their enemies.
And they learn hard truths.
“There’s violence in the West Bank,” said Schlesinger, an ardent Zionist. “The thing is that Israelis – my people – we only know the violence that they (the Palestinians) do to us. We don’t know the violence that we Israelis do to them; it’s not in the newspapers. And the Palestinians, they know the violence Israelis do to them, but they have very little knowledge of the violence that their people, the Palestinians, do to us Israelis.
“Each side is certain that the other side is bad, and we’re good. Their side is violent and aggressive – they’re terrorists – our side is peace-loving,” continued Schlesinger, a New York-born co-founder of Roots. He said Roots seeks to “humanize the enemy – at least a little bit.”
Awwad described how a simple act of driving a car can be a life-or-death experience for a Palestinian.
He recalled coming through an Israeli army checkpoint. As the soldiers waved him through, and he started pulling forward, an Israeli woman crossed the road in front of him.
Immediately, Awwad slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting her, which triggered an Israeli soldier to train his weapon on him, thinking he might be a terrorist poised to attack.
It was a Catch-22 situation, Awwad said. Either hit the brakes or risk hitting the woman. Either way, he could have been shot.
The status quo, or “normalization” as he called it, is not the way to a lasting peace.
“Respect and dignity is one of the most important things for us,” Awwad said. “You have to stick to your identity and your rights, and all of that, which is against normalization. We just believe you cannot give up part of your identity and call for peace from a point of weakness.”
Neither should Palestinians resort to violence, he added. “I am a human being before being a Palestinian.”
Schlesinger and Awwad are touring America, visiting synagogues and churches to talk up Roots’ mission. Not so many mosques, Schlesinger lamented (only one on this trip). “We have real difficulties speaking in mosques. There’s sociological reasons; there’s economic reasons; there’s political reasons.”
They also speak at universities, where Awwad is “shocked and mad” about the degree to which students are “moving the conflict to the campuses,” fighting instead of talking.
“We should also have Roots here for the students so they can really talk to each other,” Awwad said to a round of applause.

Want to help?
Roots has a mailing list of about 3,000 supporters. To support them, visit friendsofroots.net. See the column on page 6 for more details.

Guest Speaker: Rabbi Daniel Freelander – Scholar In Residence

April 15, 2019/in Featured, News

The Temple along with Temple Shalom welcomed guest speaker Rabbi Daniel Freelander. Scholar In Residence was a wonderful weekend event.  Rabbi Daniel Freelander (president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism – WUPJ) was amazing! Therefore, we look forward to many more shared events.  These events are made possible thanks to a generous grant from the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence.

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Guest Speaker Rabbi Daniel Freelander

Rabbi Daniel Hillel Freelander serves as president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism. With offices in New York and Jerusalem, Rabbi Freelander leads the coordinating body of over 1.8 million Jews, representing almost 1000 congregations and seven regional bodies.

Senior University 2019

March 21, 2019/in Featured, News

Thank you all for coming to Senior University 2019! A full day of learning, lunching, and celebrating Purim with your Temple family.

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Grab your favorite hamentaschen and join your friends for Senior University 2019! New UofL President Dr. Neeli Bendapudi will kick off the day sharing her vision for the future of the university. Our shpiel will continue with a variety of speakers and workshops including:

Abby Glogower, Curator of Jewish Collections and the Jewish Community Archive at The Filson Historical Society
Bourbon 101, including history AND tasting
A festive closing performance by our own Jennifer Diamond
Also, it wouldn’t be Senior University without Mickey and Carol Heideman’s famous mushroom barley soup for lunch. Let us know that you’ll be joining your friends from 9:30 am-3:30 pm for this engaging, fascinating, enriching shpiel-day at The Temple.

Rabbi Rick Jacobs at The Temple

October 19, 2018/in Featured, News

The Temple & Temple Shalom were honored to have Rabbi Rick Jacobs join our congregations for a special Shabbat service.

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Rabbi Rick Jacobs is president of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the most powerful force in North American Jewish life. The URJ leads the largest and most diverse Jewish movement in North America, with almost 900 congregations reaching nearly 1.5 million people. Immediately after his nomination as URJ president, Newsweek placed him at number seven on their 2011 list of “America’s 50 Most Influential Rabbis,” describing him as “magnetic” and “known for prioritizing social justice … and rethinking worship to engage the disaffected.”

Under the dedicated and creative leadership of Rabbi Jacobs, the URJ is engaged in the ongoing implementation of the URJ’s strategic 2020 Vision, a bold and ambitious action plan for the future of Reform Judaism structured around three core priorities: Strengthening Congregations, Audacious Hospitality and Tikkun Olam (social justice). Deeply committed to the State of Israel, Rabbi Jacobs has studied for two decades at Jerusalem’s Shalom Hartman Institute, where he is now a senior rabbinic fellow.

Operation Finale comes to Religious School

October 8, 2018/in Featured, News

On Sunday, October 7, The Temple Religious School had a wonderful program with Avner Avraham.  Mr. Avraham is a former Mossad Agent and Curator of Operation Finale: The Capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann.

It was a truly meaningful program for our students and teachers. Students were able to ask questions and were so engaged. Thank you to our co-sponsor Temple Shalom for making this possible.


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