Brian McLaren along Jewish Rabbis with prayers for Gaza aid flotilla victims
Published June 7th, 2010 by Editor in Brian McLaren, General News
Independent Catholic News is reporting:

A Jewish group in Washington will be leading a memorial service in front of the White House next Sunday, for all those killed in the Gaza aid flotilla last week. The service is at 1pm in Lafayette Park. They will also be praying for the many thousands of Israelis and Palestinians killed or displaced from their homes since the beginning of the Israel – Palestine struggle,… Rabbi Michael Lerner and Rabbi Arthur Waskow will conduct healing prayers in the Jewish tradition for those hurt or wounded, and a traditional Jewish memorial service for those killed when Israeli troops assaulted a flotilla of ships bringing aid to Gaza last Monday.

The Muslim community will be represented by Dr Sayyid M. Syeed , National Director for the Office of Interfaith and Community Alliances for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), and the Christian community by United Church of Christ pastor Rev Ama Zenya and Rev Graylan Hagler of the Plymouth Congregational Church of Christ in DC Other clergy are invited to join in offering prayers. The services is part of a conference sponsored by the interfaith Network of Spiritual Progressives taking place from Friday, June 11-Sunday June 13 at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation, 212 E. Capitol St., NE…

The organisers say: “If you can’t come – you can still help: by insisting that national media and your local media and the progressive media as well cover this event – it’s a way of making clear that the entire Jewish people should not be blamed for this morally distorted action on the part of Israel – and you don’t have to be Jewish to make that point to the media.”

The conference is co-sponsored by Tikkun, the Network of Spiritual Progressives, Common Cause, the Interfaith Alliance, The Nation magazine, Progressive Democrats of America, the Washington Peace Center, Tikkun magazine, The Shalom Center, and Peace Action.


Among the conference speakers: Rev Brian McLaren, Rev James Forbes, Rev. James Winkler, Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, Buddhist author Robert Thurman, John Dear, SJ, Congressman Keith Ellison, environmentalist activist and theorist Bill McKibben, Heather Booth, David Korten, Rabbi Arik Asherman, and more. For more information see: The Network of Spiritual Progressives - DC Conference: Strategies for Liberals and Progressives for the Obama Years.


Brian McLaren along Jewish Rabbis with prayers for Gaza aid flotilla victims at Christian Research Net