Moral Audacity and Spiritual Grandeur

 

    

“What is a Jew?  A person whose integrity* decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.”

-RABBI ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

*Integrity: firm adherence to a code of moral, ethical, or artistic values; incorruptibility

https://www.jta.org/2025/01/12/ideas/just-things-like-what-my-la-neighbors-have-lost-are-what-makes-houses-into-jewish-homes

 

RAJH and MLK:

Heshel—

https://jwa.org/media/abraham-joshua-heschel-on-selma-march-1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spz-hn0AdSs

The Seder that might have been

 

Current Events Limerick Game

https://forward.com/fast-forward/688153/trump-inauguration-benediction-rabbi-imam/

 

This day in JH

Explaining October 7^th-  walking through the timeline.

Finish with:

https://www.jta.org/2025/01/17/israel/these-are-the-hostages-to-be-released-and-left-behind-in-the-israel-hamas-ceasefire-deals-first-phase

 

 

Into  the Savyonim mall,  thieves did crash

Dragging an ATM,  much glass they did smash

Try as they might

They could not get it right

They could not open it and get out the __________.

 

 

The social media landscape will rock

When the supreme court insists on the block

From talmud to song

The list is quite long

of the jews who loved to post  on  _____ - _______.

 

 

With things all as tense as they got

Who is stirring up the middle east pot?

Yemen’s  Houthi terror group

Wants Israeli hopes to droop

and is launching missiles at the city of __________

 

 

Jerusalem’s economy is rent

People’s savings are nearly all spent

But the city wants dollars

And despite many hollers

Local taxes may  rise seventy ________________.

 

An imam from Dearborn? we’re not guessing

and a  preist and a rabbi- no messing.

At the inauguration,  we’ll see

Speakers of diversity

Will all give Donald Trump their ________.

 

 

Jews around the world have hearts beating faster

A real hostage deal? Asks each broadcaster

But not all Israelis feel

This treaty does appeal

Thousands protest: "This deal’s a ______________!"