Rambam instructs us to learn wisdom from all. Whatever the denomination to which Rabbi Lewis belongs, hearing his words fits this instruction.
«We are at war. We are at war with an enemy as savage, as voracious, as heartless as the Nazis but one wouldn't know it from our behavior. During WWII we didn't refer to storm troopers as freedom fighters. We didn't call the Gestapo, militants. We didn't see the attacks on our Merchant Marine as acts by rogue sailors. We did not justify the Nazis rise to power as our fault. We did not grovel before the Nazis, thumping our hearts and confessing to abusing and mistreating and humiliating the German people. We did not apologize for Dresden, nor for The Battle of the Bulge, nor for El Alamein, nor for D-Day.
Evil – ultimate, irreconcilable, evil threatened us and Roosevelt and Churchill had moral clarity
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[Re: GZM]
Can they build? Certainly. May they build? Certainly. But should they build at that site? No — but that decision must come from them, not from us. Sensitivity, compassion cannot be measured in feet or yards or in blocks.
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Believe it or not, I am a dues-paying, card carrying member of the ACLU, yet from start to finish, I find this sorry episode disturbing to say the least.»
For the entire article see
Sermon by Rabbi Shalom J. Lewis of Atlanta Speaks to Truth | Now Public News Coverage
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/sermon-rabbi-shalom-j-lewis-atlanta-speaks-truth
Shalom
RRW
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