Where faiths agree

From Sr. Gladys Schmitz, School Sisters of Notre Dame, Mankato, Minnesota:

Wow, this sounds GREAT and “right on the mark” (forgive the phrase). Rabbi Lerner has it right in his assessment AND in his proposed SOLUTION! The latter will never fly, however, without lots of backing and teaching. We should be part of this in whatever way we can, I think. Gladys

Why Did We Put "Generosity Sunday" on Holocaust Memorial Day?

by Rabbi Michael Lerner

This Sunday, April 15, thousands of people will be holding "Generosity Sunday" events to launch a campaign for a Global Marshall Plan and urge the U.S. to change its fundamental orientation to foreign policy — away from the notion that homeland security is achieved through domination of other countries and peoples and culture and toward the notion that it can be achieved through a spirit of generosity and caring for the well-being of others. Our particular focus is on the Network of Spiritual Progressives' version of the Global Marshall Plan — a call to dedicate one to five percent of our Gross Domestic Product each year for the next twenty years to a program dedicated to eliminating global poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, inadequate health care, and repairing the global environment. Details at www.spiritualprogressives.org.

But what does this have to do with Holocaust Memorial Day,which also falls on April 15, a day that is dedicated to remembering the genocide that faced the Jewish people and which wiped out one out of every three Jews living on the planet at the time from?

The rest is here. Rabbi Lerner's writings and ideas and be found at tikkun.org.