HeyJaredRabbi Henry Jay Karp
From 1985 to 2017 I served as Rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Davenport. A social justice activist, I founded or co-founded such organizations as In From the Cold, The David Lane Coats for Kids, and One Human Family QCA.
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The U.S. & Israel: Two Nations With a Common Crisis (opens the original)
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Let me begin by stating that I am proud Jew and Zionist. I love the State of Israel. It is my second homeland, second only to my beloved United States of America.That being said, I find myself in a place where both my beloved homelands are in the midst of a dark period in their histories. They each are suffering from their own profound moral crisis, in which they are failing to live up to the high ideals upon which each were established. Both are currently governed by authoritarian administratio
Wisdom-Driven Choices (opens the original)
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With less than 100 days until the midterm elections in the U.S., it becomes increasingly important that each American who is eligible to vote seriously consider what will go into the choices we will make when we enter the polling booth.It is with that in mind that I share some ancient wisdom from one of Judaism’s most beloved sacred texts, Pirke Avot (The Chapters/Ethics of the Fathers). This book, found in the Mishnah, is second only to the Torah in its popularity among the Jewish people. Publi
An Open Letter to My Fellow Jews in a Time of I.C.E. (opens the original)
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We have witnessed the Family Separation Policy, in which children were ripped from the arms of their parents and thrown into cages during the first Trump presidency. We watched with dismay at a Trump inflamed ransacked our Capitol Building, threatening death, violence, and destruction, in their attempt to overturn a free and fair election. Since his return to the White House, Trump has unleashed the savage forces of I.C.E. upon the streets of American cities. We have seen them drag our neighbors
What Would Washington Think? (opens the original)
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In 1790, President George Washington wrote a letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island. In it, he stated:“It is now no more that toleration is spoken of as if it were the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights, for, happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citize
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