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    Return to Daylight - אור חדש

    Defending and Restoring Liberty Under Siege

    "As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression.
    In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged.
    And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of
    change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become
    unwitting victims of the darkness."

                                                                                                                                                  Justice William O. Douglas



    The mission of Return to Daylight - Or Hadash
    is to build a network of Jewish Americans who:
    - are aware of their stake in democracy and democratic institutions in America,
    - are aware of the current peril and erosion our democratic institutions face,
    - are ready to take action in support of those institutions.
     

     

    We believe that our tradition demands that we take a stand for liberty and the rule of law, against torture, and against the abuse of power.  Or Hadash will use the themes already present in Jewish sacred time to help educate and activate the Jewish community
     
     

    “Ours is not to complete the task, but neither may we desist from beginning it.”
                                 Pirke Avot   2:21

     

    On Rosh Hashanah it is written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed...

    But T'shuva/Repentence, T'fillah/Prayer and Tz'dakah/Righteousness can annul the severity of the decree.      So must awareness and activism.

    We provide you with A New Unetaneh Tokef for a Time of Terror
    For the full text and download, please see the     Jewish Resources page.

    Read the documentation behind the A New Unetaneh Tokef for a Time of Terror!

    Download the documentation behind the A New Unetaneh Tokef for a Time of Terror!

    On the Jewish Resources page you will find:
    1. A New Unetaneh Tokef for a Time of Terror

             A Call to Collective Teshuvah presented by Or Hadash USA

    2. Ashamnu: A Call For Collective T’shuva

    A plan for a presentation, designed to take approximately one hour, on the practice of torture by the U.S. Government,
    and our responsibility as Jews and as Americans to do collective t’shuva for our complicity in the practice.

    3. SELECTED SOURCES ON COLLECTIVE T’SHUVAH

             A document to go along with the presentation

    4. Miriam Margles, “Handling the Truth”

             A supplemental reading about Elul  and letting ourselves know the truth.

    5. Two "Prayers for Voting" by Rabbi David Siedenberg

     

     

    Project Coordinators
    Robin Braverman
    Joel Siegel
    rbjs@orhadashusa.org

                                 Project Supporters
    Rabbi David Cooper                      Rabbi Burt Jacobson
    Rabbi Menachem Creditor                 Rabbi Diane Elliot
    Rabbi Roberto Graetz                    Rabbi James Brandt
    Brian Schachter-Brooks                             Rachel Biale
    Rabbi Michelle Fisher                  Rabbi Steven Chester
    Rabbi Raphael W. Asher                     Cantor Ilene Key
    Rabbi Shalom Bochner

     



     

                        

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    Last updated: Sept 19, 2008