“In commemoration of Yom HaShoah, the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester wants to share with the North American Schechter community a video created by the seniors as a reflection on the week they spent traveling through Poland during their Lev v’Nefesh journey.”

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Rick Sternberg never set out to make a fashion statement.

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Responding to Newtown Tragedy, Jewish Leaders Remind Administration and Congress of Moral and Ethical Obligations in Gun Control Debate

December 21, 2012

Community leaders and heads of school at 30 Jewish day schools around the country today issued an open letter to President Barack Obama and members of Congress. The letter urges them to enact legislation that will limit access to the types of assault weapons that were used to massacre 20 first graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The letter reminds the Administration and Congress that gun control is not just a legal or political issue, but also a moral and ethical one. “The Torah teaches us that when we live in a community, we must actively work to prevent harm to others,” the letter points out. It cites to passages in Deuteronomy and the Talmud, the compilation of rabbinic interpretations of the Bible that illuminate that point. While acknowledging the murderer’s own guilt, the letter reminds leaders that “[blood] is also on our hands, because we allowed a murderer easy, legal access to weapons that are especially lethal. It is on our hands because we failed to build adequate fences around things that we knew were dangerous, as the Torah commands us.” Continue reading »