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PEACE IN OUR CITIES:
RABBIS AGAINST
GUN VIOLENCE
Second Edition
Foreword by Rabbi Jill Jacobs
Introduction by Pastor Michael McBride
Afterword by Teny Oded Gross
Edited by Rabbi Menachem Creditor
Second Edition Afterword by Dr. Erica Brown
CONTENTS
1 FOREWORD: Violence, Jews, and Justice
Rabbi Jill Jacobs
3 Introduction: Seek the Peace of The City: The Moral Mandate for Gun Control
Pastor Michael McBride
7 A Letter That Changed My Life
Rabbi Joseph B. Meszler
9 "And None Shall Make Him Afraid": The Jewish Legacy and Guns
Rabbi Steven Greenberg
17 Where is Our Strength? Bearing Arms in Jewish Thought
Rabbi Sheldon Lewis
23 I Live on a Quiet Tree-Lined Street
Rabbi Shalom Bochner
25 Becoming Actors
Rabbi Nina Mandel
29 A Prophetic Response to Gun Violence
Rabbi Menachem Creditor
35 The Name on The Bullet
Rabbi Jack Moline
37 Unnecessary Danger: A Jewish Reflection on Guns, Violence and Personal Safety
Rabbi Aaron Alexander
41 Answer Our Prayers: Remarks at the National Cathedral Gun Violence Vigil
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld
45 Testimony Before the Minnesota Senate Judiciary Committee on Gun Violence
Rabbi Michael Adam Latz
49 Be Like Busch: An Open Letter from Four American Rabbis to the NRA Membership
Rabbis Aaron Alexander, Sharon Brous, Ronit Tsadok, and Menachem Creditor
53 On the Sandy Hook School Tragedy
Rabbi Sam Weintraub
59 You Shall Not Murder
Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin
65 The Blood of The Children Cries Out from
the Ground!
Rabbi Gary S. Creditor
69 The Blood of Your Fellow
Rabbi Daniel Kahane
71 Guns and Moses
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
77 For Their Shoes
Rabbi Menachem Creditor
79 Waking Up: Gun Violence and Inequality
Rabbi Lauren Grabelle Herrmann
89 Rising to Face Indifference to Gun Violence
Rabbi David Baum
97 Gun Owners: Who Will Stand Up and Say, 'Enough?!'
Rabbi Aaron Alexander and Rabbi Ronit Tsadok
101 It is Time to Put a Stop to This!
Rabbi Jack Riemer
107 Several Questions
Rabbi Gary S. Creditor
111 The Weapon's Shame: A Case for Gun Control in Jewish Law
Rabbi Ari Hart
115 Are They His Adornments? On Guns and Masculinity
Rabbi Aryeh Cohen
119 Newtown and New Orleans, Oak Creek and Oakland
Rabbi Amy Eilberg
123 When God Cries
Rabbi Jesse M. Olitzky
127 God Full Of Mercy
Rabbi Ben Goldstein
129 Gun Violence in Our Country: A Crisis for Every Single American
Rabbi Aaron Alexander
133 To Stay Awake
Rabbi Noah Z. Farkas
137 The Ten Commandments and Gun Violence
Rabbi David Kaiman
141 Passover, Non-Violence and Gun Control
Rabbi Aryeh Cohen
144 The Fifth Child
Rabbi Joshua Hammerman
147 Karpas -Drenched in Tears: A reflection on Gun Violence in our Society for the Passover Seder
Rabbi Ron Fish
151 AFTERWORD to the First Edition: A Just Day
Teny Oded Gross
153 AFTERWORD to the Second Edition: Blood Upon Our House
Dr. Erica Brown
157 Contributors
