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Today's After Birkat haMazon talk "A Prophetic Call from Ferguson... and Beyond" with our
teacher Pastor Michael McBride was provocative, well attended, and
riveting. He had just returned from Ferguson, and the stories he shared
shocked and galvanized us, shaking us like the call of a shofar. Many
attendees asked for links to his work and related information. Pastor
McBride is the National Director of the PicoNetwork's LifeLines to
Healing Campaign, designed to reduce Urban Gun Violence and Mass
Incarceration, a group that has been on the ground in Ferguson and many
other sites of violence and racism, bringing peace and hope to many,
many people.
- The PICO LifeLines to Healing website is here.
- To support the campaign, click here.
 We also heard from Netivot Shalom members, leaders of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, Molly Shapiro, Kate Smallenburg Burch, Rabbi Dorothy Richman, and Rabbi Michael Rothbaum, ways in which Netivot Shalom can begin to make a difference in prison reform, safe neighborhoods, and schools, all issues related to Pastor Mike's sacred work. We will be learning in an upcoming after Birkat haMazon teaching (with Rabbi Rothbaum) more about California's Prop 47, as a partner of Bend the Arc in performing the mitzvah of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world.
- Bend the Arc's website is here.
- To learn about Prop 47 (in advance of the After Birkat haMazon session) click here.
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