[HANASHIR:7202] Subject: Stand for Unity November 1st - CORRECTED NOTICE!

[Ros Schwartz <rs4...>]

Further to recent posts on this list.

- Ros

Subject:          Stand for Unity November 1st - CORRECTED NOTICE!
    Date:         Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:36:32 -5
    From:         "Rabbi Kalman Packouz" <packouz (at) aish(dot)com>
Reply-To:         ShabbatShalomWeekly (at) aish(dot)com
      To:         "Rabbi Packouz's ShabbatShalom List"
<ShabbatShalomWeekly (at) aish(dot)com>


I am sorry that I didn't proof the email sufficiently before sending it. 
Yes, the date is Wednesday, Nov. 1st.  Yes, the time on the East 
Coast is 11am (we change to standard time this weekend -- "fall 
back one hour -- there will be 7 hours difference between NY time 
and Israel.  

Thank you to the many people who wrote to correct me.  

Warmly, Rabbi Packouz  

__________________________


The original message (fixed up):  


Uniting Jews for Peace:  What you Can do November 1  

Israel is once again on the brink of war and Jewish people the 
world over are  starting to experience terrorism in their own nations, 
as witnessed by  synagogue burnings in Syracuse, NY & France 
and the stabbing of a Jewish  teenager on a London bus, to 
mention only a few of many recent events.  

It no longer matters whether you were for or against Oslo because 
when the  guns are firing on Gilo, the bullets do not distinguish 
between left and  right. We are one in the eyes of the Arabs, who 
seek to make Jerusalem their  capital through stones, molotov 
cocktails, and machine gun fire; just as we  were one to Hitler, even 
if it meant going back 8 generations to find a  Jewish relative in 
one's lineage.  

If the world at large is delivering us a message - that we are one - 
perhaps  it is time for us to stand up and take notice of what we are 
being told.   Because, deep down, we all know one thing.  When we 
are united, when we act  as one - be it in 1948 to create the state of 
Israel, and again in 1967 and  1973 when Israel's very existence 
was in doubt - we witness miraculous,  momentous events. And, 
time and again, the Jewish people have been saved.  

This is why I, and many others, are calling on every Jew, and on our  
many friends, to unite at the same moment to make a difference.   
On Wednesday, November 1 at 6:00 pm Israel time (see below for 
your  corresponding local time), the first day of the Jewish month of  
Cheshvan, Stop, Stand Still and Unite with your fellow Jews in the  
following prayer:    

Dear God, bring us back from the brink of war and bless us with 
peace, wisdom  and healing. Guide us together in love and 
harmony to our destiny. May we  find only favor in each other and 
witness the hopeful vision of swords beaten  into plowshares, each 
under his vine and fig tree, unafraid, soon in our  days.     

Just Imagine...  

For one minute Jews of all backgrounds, nationalities and 
affiliations will  be united, overlooking the differences that so
blindly 
divide us, to share  the love and heritage that bind us together for 
3000 years.  

For one minute, our voices will be joined together in the same 
thought,  united in the same concern of love for Israel, our fellow 
Jewsand world peace.  

For one minute, all our spiritual, emotional and physical resources 
will be  united together in the quest for a true and lasting peace.  

Just as the Jews of Israel stand together for moments of silence 
and respect  each spring in honor of the 6 million and our fallen 
soldiers, let us all  join together to take a stand for our future.  

Calculate your local time to coincide with Israel at 6:00 p.m., which 
will be  11:00 am eastern standard time (New York), 10:00 am 
central time(Chicago) and  8:00 am pacific coast time (Los 
Angeles), 5:00 pm in Paris, 4:00 pm in  London, and 2:00 pm in 
Sao Paulo.  

Please distribute the following as widely as possible through e-
mail.  Print  it out and post it in your workplaces, schools, 
synagogues, temples and local  coffee shops.   Please translate it 
into your language and distribute to your  network of family, friends 
and colleagues.   Use this text to run an  advertisement in your local 
paper if you can.  And remember to set your  watches, alarms, and 
palm pilots to your equivalent of 6:00 pm Israel time on  
November 1.  

Please let Mimi Baron Jankovits, the progenitor of this idea, know  
your plans and experiences November 1, which I will compile and  
distribute.  You can reach her at unitingjews (at) aol(dot)com .  

Warmly,       
Rabbi Packouz 

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