Monday, February 13, 2017 at 7:30pm to 9:00pm
First Church in Oberlin
First Church In Oberlin, 106 N Main St, Oberlin, OH 44074
Rabbi Brant Rosen leads Tzedek Chicago, a values-based congregation which draws its inspiration from Torah’s central story of liberation. Relevant to his talk at Oberlin is Tzedek Chicago's core value of a Judaism beyond nationalism:
"While we appreciate the important role of the land of Israel in Jewish tradition, liturgy and identity, we do not celebrate the fusing of Judaism with political nationalism. We are non-Zionist, openly acknowledging that the creation of an ethnic Jewish nation state in historic Palestine resulted in an injustice against its indigenous people – an injustice that continues to this day.
"We reject any ideology that insists upon exclusive Jewish entitlement to the land, recognizing that it has historically been considered sacred by many faiths and home to a variety of peoples, ethnicities and cultures. In our advocacy and activism, we oppose Israel’s ongoing oppression of the Palestinian people and seek a future that includes full civil and human rights for all who live in the land – Jews and non-Jews alike."
He is also Midwest Regional Director of the American Friends Service Committee, and formerly the rabbi of Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston. He is the cofounder and co-chairperson of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council and a former president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association.
Rabbi Rosen is author of Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity (Just World Books, 2012). He blogs regularly at Shalom Rav and Yedid Nefesh.
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