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From La Liga To Championship! I'm Here To Win Trophies Says Benitez
Newcastle has finally unveiled Rafael Benitez and he has promised to get the club back to the premier league and lead them to win trophies. The former Realmadrid boss was speaking at his unveiling after he was confirmed to stay at the club for another three years and he expressed his delight at his contract extension; 'I am here because I am convinced we can go up next season, stay there for a long time and even win trophies,' said the 56-year-old, who was reconfirmed as boss on a three-year deal.'I would like to build something. I would like to be close to Sir Bobby, that would be fantastic.''Football business, I will have responsibility of. The main thing is that I have assurances we will have a strong team and a winning team. 'What I have is the assurance that if I don't want to sell any players I don't have to. We can keep all the players who we want.' And the Spaniard says the potential of the club, as well as the support he received from fans after taking charge for the final 10 games of the season, has persuaded him to remain in the second tier.It is a challenge, yes. I have won trophies all my career,' he said.'The reason for me to stay was the fans, the stature of the club and the future.Now it is time for a new project, a new challenge. I can see the possibilities and the size of the club and the potential. Everything is massive and I want to be a part of it. I will start working immediately so we can be big – the first thing is promotion.' ALSO READ: 5 Highlights Of Louis Van Gaal's Reign At Manchester United Benitez told Newcastle's official website: 'The love I could feel from the fans was a big influence for me in my decision to stay, as was my relationship with Lee Charnley and all the staff.This is a huge club and I wanted to be part of the great future I can see for Newcastle United.' And while he will have to come to terms with getting down to business as grounds such as Rotherham's New York Stadium and Brentford's Griffin Park, he is well aware that the Championship will not surrender and allow Newcastle an instant return to the top flight.'The Championship is one of the strongest leagues,' he said. 'It's a challenge. 'There are good teams. We need experience and your (fans') support.We have to start working – when I finish this press conference, I will start working.' Charnley added: 'When we brought Rafa to the club in March, we knew he was a phenomenal manager and everything we have seen from him since has only served to reinforce that.We are therefore delighted to have secured his services for the next three years and I believe with Rafa as manager it gives us the best possible chance of returning to the Premier League at the first time of asking and delivering success for this football club beyond that.It is clear that Rafa has connected deeply with the club's supporters and we do not underestimate the role they have played in his decision to stay.He has captured the hearts and minds not just of the fans, but of everyone who has had the pleasure of working with him at the club thus far.As a world-class manager we had no doubt in our minds as to the importance of retaining him at Newcastle United.'


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European nations are to draw up radical proposals to improve transparency in financial markets and to change the way credit rating agencies operate in an attempt to prevent any recurrence of the financial turmoil arising from the credit squeeze.
A roadmap of reforms was being drawn up by eurozone finance ministers on Sunday including fuller public disclosure of activities involving special investment vehicles set up by banks. The finance ministers, meeting in Luxembourg, were poised to call for a close examination of the role of credit rating agencies, especially in relation to structured finance instruments, conflicts of interest, transparency of rating methods and delays in reassessing ratings.
The most radical step being considered by the Group of Seven nations would be to force rating agencies to split their rating business from their consulting activities. Other options include forcing agencies to provide ratings not only for creditworthiness but also for liquidity risks and limiting the use that public institutions such as central banks or governments make of ratings.
The European Central Bank acknowledged that eurozone money markets remain tight and said it will inject extra funds for as long as is needed.
The ECB issued the unexpected pledge in a statement just after it called for bids for its regular refinancing operation. Successful bids will be allocated on Tuesday.
The ECB said it "continues to closely monitor liquidity conditions and aims at further reducing the volatility of the very short term rates to around the main refinancing operation minimum bid rate."
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Celebrating a New Jewish Diasporism: A Sermon for Rosh Hashanah 5777Posted: October 4, 2016 Filed under: Christianity, God, Great Britain, High Holidays, Human Rights, Israel, Jewish Community, Judaism, Nakba, Nonviolence, Palestine, Racism, Refugees, Religion, Sermons, Tzedek Chicago, World, Zionism Leave a comment
As I'm sure you know, Tzedek Chicago has received a great deal of attention – some might call it notoriety – for calling ourselves a "non-Zionist" congregation. But contrary to what our most cynical critics might say, we didn't choose this label for the publicity. When we founded Tzedek Chicago last year, used this term deliberately. We did so because we wanted to create an intentional community, based on specific core values. Our non-Zionism is not just a label. It is comes from our larger conviction to celebrate "a Judaism beyond nationalism."
This is how we explain this particular core value:
While we appreciate the important role of the land of Israel in Jewish tradition, liturgy and identity, we do not celebrate the fusing of Judaism with political nationalism. We are non-Zionist, openly acknowledging that the creation of an ethnic Jewish nation state in historic Palestine resulted in an injustice against its indigenous people – an injustice that continues to this day.
I think it's important that we named this value out loud. We need Jewish congregations that refuse draw red lines over the issue of Zionism, or at best to simply "tolerate" non or anti-Zionists in their ranks as long as they stay quiet. We need congregations that openly state they don't celebrate a Jewish nation built on the backs of another people. That call out – as Jews – a state system that privileges Jews over non-Jews.
However, I realize that this core value begs another question – and its one I get asked personally from time to time. It's usually some variant of: "Saying you are non-Zionist only tells me what you're not. But what is it that your Judaism does celebrate?"
It's a fair question – and I'd like to address it in my words to you this morning.
On Passover, Israel and Demographic ThreatsPosted: April 28, 2016 Filed under: Civil Rights, Gaza, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Peace, Pesach, Politics, Refugees, Religion, Zionism Leave a comment
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The weeklong Jewish festival of Passover is coming to a close, but like many Jews around the world I'm still digesting the myriad questions, answers and discussions that ensued as we retold the biblical story of the Exodus at our seder. While it's a story our community returns to over and over again, I'm continually astonished at the ways it provides a frame for understanding struggles for liberation past and present.
This year, I've been contemplating one aspect of the story in particular: when a new pharaoh arises over Egypt "who did not know Joseph." We immediately learn in no uncertain terms that this new ruler was considerably more xenophobic than his predecessor:
And (Pharaoh) said to his people, "Look, the Israelite people are much too numerous for us. Let us deal shrewdly with them, so that they may not increase; otherwise in the event of war they may join our enemies in fighting against us." (Exodus 1:8-9)
To use contemporary parlance, Pharaoh clearly views the Israelites as a "demographic threat" to the Egyptians.
The demographic threat meme, of course, has been played out countless times since the age of the pharaohs. It has certainly been a deeply woven thread in the fabric of American culture from our very origins. To cite but one example: Centuries before Donald Trump started railing against Mexican "criminals" and "rapists," Benjamin Franklin wrote a 1751 essay in which he bemoaned the influx of "Palatine Boors" into the colonies who would "shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our language or customs, any more than they can acquire our complexion."
So yes, as an American, I can't read these words from the Exodus story without connecting it to an ignoble aspect of my own country's legacy — one that is all too real even today.
And as an American Jew, I can't help but connect it to another country that also purports to act in my name.
Indeed, ever since Israel's establishment, Zionist leaders knew well that the future Jewish state would only be "viable" if it could create and maintain a demographic Jewish majority in historic Palestine. In the late 19th century, this must surely have seemed like a tall order, since Jews constituted but 2 to 5 percent of the population. By 1947, following decades of Zionist colonization and Jewish immigration, their number had swelled to 32 percent. Under the UN-sponsored partition plan, the percentage of Jews allotted to the new Jewish state would have been 55 percent.
During the 1948 war — known as the War of Independence by Zionists and the Nakba ("catastrophe") by Palestinians — the issue of demographics was solved through the forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes and Israel's refusal to allow them to return. However, the demographic stakes were raised once again in 1967, when Israel conquered the West Bank and Gaza and began a military occupation that exists to this day.
In 2010, Jews officially become a minority population from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea; around the same time, it was determined that the Jewish majority in Israel proper was slowly diminishing. For some time now, Zionists have been warning that the Palestinians' birth rate poses a "demographic threat" to the future of the Jewish state.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of this rhetoric is that it doesn't only come from Israel's far right, but from liberal Zionists, who use the demographic argument to advocate for a two-state solution. Witness, for instance, the words of J Street executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami:
When it comes to Israeli-Palestinian peace, the two-state solution and the inexorable demographic threat to Israel's future as a democratic state that remains the homeland for the Jewish people, our position is the same as that of the Israeli government, the Obama administration and the vast bulk of the American Jewish community.
Leaving aside the issues of whether or not the two-state solution actually is the policyof the Israeli government, let's unpack this statement for a moment. The liberal Zionist argument for a "democratic Jewish state" is predicated on a view of Palestinians as a "demographic threat." As an American, if I referred to any other ethnic group in this country with such a term, I would surely be viewed as a bigot or a racist. But as a Jew, I can refer to Palestinians with this epithet and still remain a member in good standing of the liberal peace camp.
Thus the inherent contradiction of liberal Zionism: democracy and demographic engineering simply do not go hand in hand. At the end of the day, there is nothing liberal about supporting an ethno-national project predicated upon the identity of one group over another. The late Meir Kahane, revered by Israel's ultra right, loved to make liberal Zionists squirm by repeatedly articulating this point: "A western democracy and Zionism are not compatible. You can't have both."
Kahane's solution, of course, was "forced transfer" of the Palestinian population. The current government of Israel is accomplishing this goal through more subtle means:home demolitions, land expropriation and the revocation of Palestinians' residency and citizenship. In truth, Israel has been dealing with its demographic threat under cover of US support for years, all the while claiming the mantle of "the only democracy in the Middle East."
This, along with its massive settlement expansion has brought Israel's demographic problem home to roost. The real decision before them is not between a one-state or two-state solution, but between two one-state solutions: an apartheid Jewish state or one state of all its citizens, regardless of religion or ethnicity.
As I watch this tragic process unfold this Passover, I find myself returning to the universal lesson this festival imparts on the corrupt abuse of state power. Although the Exodus story is considered sacred in Jewish tradition, it would be a mistake to assume that the contemporary state of Israel must be seen as equivalent to the biblical Israelites.
On the contrary, any people who suffer under oppressive government policies are, in a sense, Israelites. And any state — even a Jewish state — that views a people in its midst as a demographic threat can become a Pharaoh.
"Who will be Next?" Max Blumenthal's Yom Kippur Presentation at Tzedek ChicagoPosted: October 11, 2015 Filed under: Gaza, High Holidays, Human Rights, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Refugees, Religion, Tzedek Chicago, War, Yom Kippur 1 Comment
On Yom Kippur, journalist Max Blumenthal delivered this powerful presentation during the afternoon program at Tzedek Chicago, where he discussed what he witnessed in Gaza during Israel's military onslaught last summer. He wrote about his experiences at length in his recent book, "The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza."
Max attended our services for the duration of Yom Kippur and remarked to me on more than one occasion how important it was for him to be invited to speak in a Jewish congregation for the first time.
For my part, I could not think of a more appropriate presentation for the Jewish Day of Atonement.
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The Uprooted and Unwanted: A Sermon for Tzedek Chicago's First Yom Kippur ServicePosted: September 25, 2015 Filed under: Gaza, High Holidays, Homelessness, Human Rights, Immigration, Iraq, Israel, Judaism, Nakba, Palestine, Politics, Racism, Refugees, Religion, Syria, Tzedek Chicago, War, World 2 Comments
Like you, I've been profoundly horrified by the refugee crisis that has resulted from Syria's ongoing civil war. The reports and images and statistics continue to roll out every day and the sheer level of human displacement is simply staggering to contemplate. Since 2011, over half of that country's entire population has been uprooted. At present, there are more than 4 million Syrian refugees are registered with the UN. Another 7 million have been internally displaced. Experts tell us we are currently witnessing the worst refugee crisis of our generation.
The tragic reality of forced migration has been brought home to us dramatically this past summer – but of course, this crisis did not just begin this year and Syria is not the only country in the region affected by this refugee crisis. Scores are also fleeing civil war and violence from countries such as Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Yemen. In all of 2014, approximately 219,000 people from these countries tried to cross the Mediterranean to seek asylum in Europe. According the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, in just the first eight months of 2015, over 300,000 refugees tried to cross the sea – and more than 2,500 died.
And of course this issue is not just limited to the Middle East. It extends to places such as Latin and Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa as well – and it would be not at all be an exaggeration to suggest that the crisis of forced human migration is reaching epidemic proportions. Just this past June, the UN High Commissioner on Refugees issued a report that concluded that "wars, conflict and persecution have forced more people than at any other time since records began to flee their homes and seek refuge and safety elsewhere."
It is all too easy to numb ourselves to reports such as these – or to simply throw up our hands and chalk it up to the way of the world. But if Yom Kippur is to mean anything, I would suggest it demands that we stand down our overwhelm. To investigate honestly why this kind of human dislocation exists in our world and openly face the ways we are complicit in causing it. And perhaps most importantly to ask: if we are indeed complicit in this crisis, what is our responsibility toward ending it?
There is ample evidence that we as Americans, are deeply complicit in the refugee crises in the Middle East. After all, the US has fueled the conflicts in all five of the nations from which most refugees are fleeing – and it is directly responsible for the violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
In Iraq, our decade-long war and occupation resulted in the deaths of at least a million people and greatly weakened the government. This in turn created a power vacuum that brought al-Qaeda into the country and led to the rise of ISIS. Over 3.3 million people in Iraq have now been displaced because of ISIS.
In Afghanistan, the US occupation continues and we are war escalating the war there, in spite of President Obama's insistence that it would end by 2014. According to the UN, there are 2.6 million refugees coming out of Afghanistan.
In Libya, the US-led NATO bombing destroyed Qaddafi's government. At the time, then Secretary of State Clinton joked to a news reporter, "We came, we saw, he died." Shortly after Libya was wracked with chaos that led to the rise of ISIS affiliates in northern Africa. Many thousands of Libyans are now fleeing the country, often on rickety smuggler boats and rafts. The UN estimates there are over 360,000 displaced Libyans.
In Yemen, a coalition of Middle Eastern nations, led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the US, has been bombarding Yemen for half a year now, causing the deaths of over 4,500 people. We continue to support this coalition, despite the fact that human rights organizations are accusing it of war crimes that include the intentional targeting of civilians and aid buildings. As a result, the UN says, there are now over 330,000 displaced Yemenis.
And the US is not free of responsibility for the crisis in Syria either. For years now, we have been meddling in that civil war, providing weapons to rebels fighting Assad's government. But since the rise of ISIS the US has backed away from toppling his regime – and there are now reports that the US and Assad have even reached "an uncomfortable tacit alliance."
Despite our role in the Syrian civil war, our government is taking in relatively few refugees from that country. Just last Monday, Secretary of State Kerry announced that the US would increase the number of refugees to 100,000 by 2017, saying "This step is in the keeping with America's best tradition as land of second chances and a beacon of hope." In reality, however, this number is still a drop in the bucket relative to the dire need – and only an eighth of the number that Germany has pledged to take in this year.
Kerry's comment, of course, expresses a central aspect of the American mythos – but in truth it is one that flies in the face of history. While we like to think of ourselves "as a land of second chances and a beacon of hope," these words mask a darker reality: it is a hope that only exists for some – and it has largely been created at the expense of others. Like many empires before us, our nation was established – upon the systemic dislocation of people who are not included in our "dream."
If we are to own up to our culpability in today's crises of forced human migration, we must ultimately reckon with reality behind the very founding of our country. The dark truth is that our country's birth is inextricably linked to the dislocation and ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples this land. It was, moreover, built upon the backs of slaves who were forcibly removed from their homes and brought to this country in chains. It is, indeed, a history we have yet to collectively own up to as a nation. We have not atoned for this legacy of human dislocation. On the contrary, we continue to rationalize it away behind the myths of American exceptionalism: a dream of hope and opportunity for all.
And there's no getting around it: those who are not included in this "dream" – the dislocated ones, if you will – are invariably people of color. Whether we're talking about Native Americans and African Americans, the Latino migrants we imprison and deport, or the Syrian, Iraqi, Afghani or Yemini refugees of the Middle East. If we are going to reckon with this legacy, we cannot and must not avoid the context of racism that has fueled and perpetuated it.
As a Jew, of course, I think a great deal about our legacy of dislocation. To be sure, for most of our history we have been a migrating people. Our most sacred mythic history describes our ancestors' travels across the borders of the Ancient Near East and the Israelites' wanderings in the wilderness. And in a very real sense, our sense of purpose has been honored by our migrations throughout the diaspora – yes, too often forcibly, but always with a sense of spiritual purpose. For centuries, to be a Jew meant to be part of a global peoplehood that located divinity anywhere our travels would take us.
Our sacred tradition demands that we show solidarity with those who wander in search of a home. The most oft-repeated commandment in the Torah, in fact, is the injunction against oppressing the stranger because we ourselves were once strangers in the land of Egypt. And given our history, it's natural that we should find empathy and common cause with the displaced and uprooted.
However, I do fear that in this day and age of unprecedented Jewish success – and dare I say, Jewish privilege – we are fast losing sight of this sacred imperative. One of my most important teachers in this regard is the writer James Baldwin, who was an unsparingly observer of the race politics in America. In one particularly searing essay, which he wrote in 1967, Baldwin addressed the issue of Jewish "whiteness" and privilege in America. It still resonates painfully to read it today:
It is galling to be told by a Jew whom you know to be exploiting you that he cannot possibly be doing what you know he is doing because he is a Jew. It is bitter to watch the Jewish storekeeper locking up his store for the night, and going home. Going, with your money in his pocket, to a clean neighborhood, miles from you, which you will not be allowed to enter. Nor can it help the relationship between most Negroes and most Jews when part of this money is donated to civil rights. In the light of what is now known as the white backlash, this money can be looked on as conscience money merely, as money given to keep the Negro happy in his place, and out of white neighborhoods.
One does not wish, in short, to be told by an American Jew that his suffering is as great as the American Negro's suffering. It isn't, and one knows that it isn't from the very tone in which he assures you that it is…
For it is not here, and not now, that the Jew is being slaughtered, and he is never despised, here, as the Negro is, because he is an American. The Jewish travail occurred across the sea and America rescued him from the house of bondage. But America is the house of bondage for the Negro, and no country can rescue him. What happens to the Negro here happens to him because he is an American.
In other essays, Baldwin referred to white immigrant success in America as "the price of the ticket" – in other words, the price for Jewish acceptance into white America was the betrayal of the most sacred aspects of our spiritual and historical legacy. We, who were once oppressed wanderers ourselves, have now found a home in America. But in so doing we have been directly or indirectly complicit in the systematic oppression and dislocation of others.
On Rosh Hashanah I talked about another kind of Jewish deal called Constantinian Judaism – or the fusing of Judaism and state power. And to be sure, if we are to talk about our culpability this Yom Kippur in the crime of forced migration, we cannot avoid reckoning with the devastating impact the establishment of the state of Israel has had on that land's indigenous people – the Palestinian people.
According to Zionist mythos, the Jewish "return" to land was essentially a "liberation movement." After years of migration through the diaspora, the Jewish people can finally at long last come home – to be, as the national anthem would have it, "a free people in their own land."
The use of the term "liberation" movement, of course is a misnomer. It would be more accurate to term Zionism as a settler colonial project with the goal of creating an ethnically Jewish state in a land that already populated by another people. By definition the non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine posed an obstacle to the creation of a Jewish state. In order to fulfill its mandate as a political Jewish nation, Israel has had to necessarily view Palestinians as a problem to somehow be dealt with.
Put simply, the impact of Jewish nation-statism on the Palestinian people has been devastating. The establishment of Israel – a nation designed to end our Jewish wanderings – was achieved through the forced dislocation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes, which were either destroyed completely or occupied by Jewish inhabitants.
In turn, it created what is now the largest single refugee group in the world and our longest running refugee crisis. Millions of Palestinians now live in their own diaspora, forbidden to return to their homes or even set foot in their homeland. Two and a half million live under military occupation in the West Bank where their freedom of movement is drastically curtailed within an extensive regime of checkpoints and heavily militarized border fences. And nearly two million live in Gaza, most of them refugees, literally trapped in an open-air prison where their freedom of movement is denied completely.
This, then, is our complicity – as Americans, as Jews. And so I would suggest, this Yom Kippur, it is our sacred responsibility to openly confess our culpability in this process of uprooting human beings from their homes so that we might find safety, security and privilege in ours. But when then? Is our confession merely an exercise in feeling bad about ourselves, in self-flagellation? As Jay said to us in his sermon last night, "Our sense of immense guilt over our sins, collective and individual, could paralyze us. How do we move forward with teshuvah when the task is so great?"
According to Jewish law, the first step in teshuvah is simply recognizing that a wrong has been committed and confessing openly to it. This in and of itself is no small thing. I daresay with all of the media attention to the Syrian refugee crisis, there is precious little, if any, discussion of the ways our nation might be complicit in creating it. And here at home, we are far from a true reckoning over the ways our white supremacist legacy has dislocated Native Americans and people of color in our own country. And needless to say, the Jewish community continually rationalizes away the truth of Israel's ongoing injustice toward the Palestinian people.
So yes, before we can truly atone, we must first identify the true nature of our wrongdoings and own them – as a community – openly and together. The next step is to make amends – to engage in a process of reparations to effect real transformation and change. But again, the very prospect of this kind of communal transformation feels too overwhelming , too messianic to even contemplate. How do we even begin to collectively repair wrongs of such a magnitude?
I believe the answer, as ever, is very basic. We begin by joining together, by building coalitions, by creating movements. We know that this kind of organizing has the power to effect very real socio-political change in our world. We have seen it happen in countries such as South Africa and Ireland and we've seen it here at home – where Chicago became the first city in the country to offer monetary reparations to citizens who were tortured by the police. In this, as in the aforementioned examples, the only way reparations and restorative justice was achieved was by creating grassroots coalitions that leveraged people power to shift political power.
And that is why we've prominently identified "solidarity" as one of our congregation's six core values:
Through our activism and organizing efforts, we pursue partnerships with local and national organizations and coalitions that combat institutional racism and pursue justice and equity for all. We promote a Judaism rooted in anti-racist values and understand that anti-Semitism is not separate from the systems that perpetuate prejudice and discrimination. As members of a Jewish community, we stand together with all peoples throughout the world who are targeted as "other."
How do we effect collective atonement? By realizing that we are not in this alone. By finding common cause with others and marching forward. It is not simple or easy work. It can be discouraging and depleting. It does not always bear fruit right away and it often feels as if we experience more defeats than successes along the way. But like so many, I believe we have no choice but to continue the struggle. And I am eager and excited to begin to create new relationships, to participate as a Jewish voice in growing coalitions, with the myriad of those who share our values. I can't help but believe these connections will ultimately reveal our true strength.
I'd like to end now with a prayer – I offer it on behalf of refugees and migrants, on behalf of who have been forced to wander in search of a home:
Ruach Kol Chai – Spirit of All that Lives:
Help us. Help us to uphold the values that are so central to who we are: human beings created in the image of God. Help us to find compassion in our hearts and justice in our deeds for all who seek freedom and a better life. May we find the strength to protect and plead the cause of the dislocated and uprooted, the migrant and the refugee.
Guide us. Guide us toward one law. One justice. One human standard of behavior toward all. Move us away from the equivocation that honors the divine image in some but not in others. Let us forever affirm that the justice we purport to hold dear is nothing but a sham if it does not uphold basic human dignity for all who dwell in our midst.
Forgive us. Forgive us for the inhumane manner that in which we too often treat the other. We know, or should, that when it comes to crimes against humanity, some of us may be guilty, but all of us are responsible. Grant us atonement for the misdeeds of exclusion we invariably commit against the most vulnerable members of society: the uprooted and unwanted, the unhoused, the uninsured, the undocumented.
Strengthen us. Strengthen us to find the wherewithal to shine your light into the dark places of our world. Give us ability to uncover those who are hidden from view, locked away, forgotten. Let us never forget that nothing is hidden and no one lost from before you. Embolden us in the knowledge that no one human soul is disposable or replaceable; that we can never, try as we might, uproot another from before your sight.
Remind us. Remind us of our duty to create a just society right here, right now, in our day. Give us the vision of purpose to guard against the complacency of the comfortable – and the resolve in knowing that we cannot put off the cause of justice and freedom for another day. Remind us that the time is now. Now is the moment to create your kingdom here on earth.
Ken Yehi Ratzon. May it be your will. And may it be ours.
And let us say,
A Confession of Communal Complicity: A New Al Chet For Yom KippurPosted: September 17, 2015 Filed under: Fear, Gaza, High Holidays, Immigration, Israel, Judaism, Palestine, Poverty, Prayer, Racism, Refugees, Religion, Tzedek Chicago, War, Zionism 15 Comments
I've written a new Al Chet prayer that we will be using during Yom Kippur services at Tzedek Chicago. The Al Chet is part of the Vidui – or Confession – in which the congregation stands up and publicly confesses the sins of their community. It is at its core, an open statement of communal complicity.
I'll say no more because I think the words really do speak for themselves. Feel free to share and use.
We say together:
עַל חֵטְא שֶׁחָטָאנוּ לְפָנֶיךָ
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha…
(For the wrong we have done before you…)
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for forgetting that we were all once strangers in a strange land;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for preferring militarized fences to open borders.
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for supporting trade policies and murderous regimes that uproot people, families and communities;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for drawing lines and turning away those who come to our country seeking a better life.
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for demonizing migrants as threats to be feared;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for labeling human beings as "illegal."
וְעַל כֻּלָּם אֱלוֹהַּ סְלִיחוֹת סְלַח לָנוּ, מְחַל לָנוּ כַּפֶּר לַנוּ
Ve'al kulam eloha selichot selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu.
(For all these, source of forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, receive our atonement.)
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for internalizing and assenting to racist ideologies;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for allowing oppressive systems to continue unchecked.
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for our complicity in regularly profiling, incarcerating and murdering people of color;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for denying fair housing, public schools and greater opportunity to our black and brown communities.
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for dehumanizing, excluding and murdering gay, lesbian, trans and queer people;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for shaming and stigmatizing the infirm, the mentally and physically disabled, and the elderly.
וְעַל כֻּלָּם אֱלוֹהַּ סְלִיחוֹת סְלַח לָנוּ, מְחַל לָנוּ כַּפֶּר לַנוּ
Ve'al kulam eloha selichot selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu.
(For all these, source of forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, receive our atonement.)
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for buying into and promoting the ideology of American exceptionalism;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for oppressing other peoples and nations in the name of American power and influence;
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for profiting off of weapons of death and destruction;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for contributing to the increased militarization of our nation and our world.
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for expanding our military budget while we cut essential services here at home;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for believing that militarism and violence will ensure our collective security.
וְעַל כֻּלָּם אֱלוֹהַּ סְלִיחוֹת סְלַח לָנוּ, מְחַל לָנוּ כַּפֶּר לַנוּ
Ve'al kulam eloha selichot selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu.
(For all these, source of forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, receive our atonement.)
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for the destruction of homes, expropriation of land and warehousing of humanity;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for a brutal and crushing military occupation.
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for blockading 1.8 million Gazans inside an open air prison;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for repeatedly unleashing devastating military firepower on a population trapped in a tiny strip of land.
Al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for wedding sacred Jewish spiritual tradition to political nationalism and militarism;
Ve' al chet she'chatanu lifanecha for rationalizing away Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people.
וְעַל כֻּלָּם אֱלוֹהַּ סְלִיחוֹת סְלַח לָנוּ, מְחַל לָנוּ כַּפֶּר לַנוּ
Ve'al kulam eloha selichot selach lanu, mechal lanu, kaper lanu.
(For all these, source of forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, receive our atonement.)
Expanding the Telling: A New Passover Seder SupplementPosted: March 31, 2015 Filed under: Israel, Judaism, Nakba, Palestine, Pesach, Refugees 6 Comments
I've just written a new Pesach seder supplement that encourages us to take our cue from the Haggadah and "expand upon the telling" of the Exodus story. You can download a pdf here:
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And finally, click here to download the #BlackLivesMatter Haggadah Supplement, an incredibly powerful new seder resource just published by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice.
Sending blessings for a warm and liberating Pesach…
People You Should Know About: Sister Pat Murphy and Sister JoAnn PerschPosted: May 4, 2014 Filed under: Christianity, Homelessness, Human Rights, Immigration, Interfaith, People You Should Know About, Prison Justice, Refugees 4 Comments
This past Friday morning, members of my congregation and I participated in an interfaith vigil at the immigrant detention facility in Broadview, IL. We've come to this spot many times over the years and I've written about the vigil many times before. It was founded several years ago Sister JoAnn Persch (right) and Sister Pat Murphy (left) of the Sisters of Mercy – two of my spiritual heroes.
During the vigil, Sister Jo joyfully announced that the Marie Joseph House of Hospitality, a home that provides shelter, meals, transportation, and community support for people awaiting their immigration proceedings, was finally open. Sister Jo and Sister Pat have been indefatigably working to create this community-based alternative to detention of undocumented immigrants, who are typically treated as "inventory" during deportation hearings. Her announcement provided one small but profound ray of hope in an otherwise dark and dismal reality for those fighting for compassionate immigration reform.
In a recent article about the Marie Joseph House, Sister Pat and Sister Jo pointed out that this new facility will be able to provide these services for significantly less than the $122 to $164 per day ICE says it pays to hold someone in jail. The home will have 18 bedrooms and extra space for short-term residents. It's a small capacity compared to the 33,400 people ICE typically detains each night, but as Sister Pat and Jo rightly note, it's a start:
We are not alone in our efforts. A network of similar shelters is emerging across the country. The outpouring of financial, in-kind, and volunteer support we receive from communities of all backgrounds shows us the immense generosity Americans have when people are in need.
As Alabama Republican Congressman Spencer Bachus observed during a recent House Judiciary hearing, "It seems there is an overuse of detention." John Morton said that "alternatives to detention" programs are promising. We agree. Outside detention, people have better access to lawyers, doctors, and other support. Congress should use new immigration legislation to allow ICE to invest in alternatives rather than prisons. To get it right, they need to consult with communities and groups like ours.
I've known and worked alongside Sister Pat and Sister Jo for many years now, and am consistently inspired by their example of deep faith, abiding compassion and dogged persistence. For the past 45 years they have worked together in Chicago to minister to immigrants, refugees, older persons, and homeless families – and to advocate for their basic rights. In 2008, they helped to spearhead an intense lobbying drive to pass historic legislation that allows all immigrant detainees held in Illinois jails the same access to clergy as those imprisoned for other crimes. As a result, many professional and lay ministers can now serve the pastoral needs of undocumented immigrants who would otherwise be locked away and forgotten by everyone but their families.
Sister Pat and Sister Jo's work has not gone unnoticed in the wider world. They were profiled in the play Home/Land (produced by Chicago's Albany Park Theater Project) and more recently in the documentary film, "Band of Sisters," (below) which explores the social justice activism of American nuns throughout the country. Though this kind of attention is much deserved, Sister Pat and Sister Jo would be the first to say that they are simply living out their faith in the most basic of ways: to minister to the needs of the most vulnerable members of society and to demand that our system do the same.
Sister Pat and Sister Jo are truly my spiritual teachers and I am so grateful to know and work alongside them. I know of few others who model compassion and justice with such decency and grace.


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June 26, 2007
CLIFTON BEALE CONSULTING, LLC AND CLIFTON BEALE - PARTNER & INDIVIDUAL, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS,v.PEREGRINE FINANCIAL GROUP, INC., PEREGRINE EXCHANGE, INC., REBECCA J. WING, ESQ., KAPITAL MANAGEMENT CO., L.P., KAPITAL TRADING GROUP, LLC, JOHN NICK KONTOROUSIS, GEORGE NICK KONTOROUSIS, DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS, AND COMMERCE BANK, N.A.*FN1, DEFENDANT.
On appeal from the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Camden County, Docket No. L-3651-04.
Submitted March 13, 2007
Before Judges Payne and Lihotz.
Plaintiffs Clifton Beale (Beale) and Clifton Beale Consulting, LLC, appeal from the following Law Division orders:
(1) March 8, 2005, which dismissed plaintiffs' complaint against defendant Peregrine Financial Group, Inc. (Peregrine), with prejudice; (2) January 13, 2006, which granted summary judgment as requested by defendants Kapital Management (KM), Kapital Trading Group, LLC (KTG), John Nick Kontorousis and George Nick Kontorousis (Kontorousis) and dismissed plaintiffs' complaint with prejudice; (3) January 13, 2006, which denied plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment; and (4) February 3, 2006, which denied plaintiffs' motion for reconsideration of the January 13, 2006 order.*fn2 We affirm.
In January 2003, Beale initiated a proceeding before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) against KTG, Kontorousis, and Peregrine, alleging fraud and seeking a return of two investments that totaled $37,000. The CFTC was created by Congress as part of the 1974 amendments to the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), 7 U.S.C.A. § 1. Under the CEA, any person complaining of a violation by a registered commodity futures broker may apply to the CFTC for an order directing the broker to pay reparations to the complainant.
Beale's submissions in the CFTC proceeding included two checks as exhibits: one to KTG for $30,000 and the other to KM for $7,000. The parties made an election to utilize the agency's "voluntary decisional procedure," which provided an expedited disposition, but required the parties to waive the right to: present evidence in an oral hearing; receive a decision containing specific written findings of fact upon which the final decision was based; and appeal the final decision to the Commissioner or the United States Court of Appeals, pursuant to section 14(e) of the Commodity Exchange Act, 7 U.S.C.A. § 18(e). 17 C.F.R. § 12.100(b); see also 17 C.F.R. § 12.106(d).
On February 6, 2004, the CFTC issued a one paragraph final decision in favor of Beale, stating, in pertinent part:
Beale has established that George Nick Kontorousis violated Sections 4(a) and 4b(a)(i) of the Commodity Exchange Act; that Kontorousis' violations proximately caused $30,000 in damages; that Kapital Trading Group, LLC is liable for Kontorousis' violations pursuant to Section 2(a)(1)(A) of the Act; and that Peregrine Financial Group, Inc. is jointly and severally liable as the guarantor of Kapital Trading Group.
Additionally, the CFTC found "Beale [] failed to establish that he [was] entitled to an award to recover the $7,000 payment that he made directly to [KM.]" On February 4, 2004, Peregrine, in compliance with the final CFTC decision, repaid Beale.
On June 30, 2004, Beale, as a self-represented litigant, filed a complaint in the Law Division on behalf of "Clifton Beale Consulting, LLC, and Clifton Beale, as Partner & Individual," that sought recovery of the $7,000 not awarded in the CFTC arbitration, stating:
The main basis and thrust of this civil action is to address matters ignored and wrongfully set aside without comment or action [by the CFTC]. . . . The [CFTC] purposely and obviously ignored evidence . . . [constituting] fraud on the court for the better part of 2 to 2 1/2 years without being made to perform as promised for financial enhancement and enjoyment as expected and deserved of the injured parties being [p]laintiffs.
The series of trial court orders now appealed resulted from various motions filed by defendants. By order dated January 2, 2005, Judge Colalillo dismissed Wing from the litigation after determining plaintiffs failed to establish the requisite personal jurisdiction. In that same hearing, Peregrine's motion to dismiss was heard. After the motion judge concluded the CFTC proceeding was "a final binding arbitration," she dismissed the action against Peregrine, determining that litigation on the same claims was precluded. The order of dismissal was entered on March 8, 2005. Additionally, the motion judge dismissed the corporate plaintiff from the litigation, as it was not represented by counsel, citing Rule 1:21-1(c).
KM and KTG filed for summary judgment on January 13, 2006. Judge Fernandez-Vina concluded the corporate plaintiff lacked standing to assert the claims alleged, and, relying on the principles of res judicata as to Beale, granted summary judgment to the moving defendants. Plaintiffs' motion for reconsideration was thereafter denied on February 3, 2006.
In a disjointed, rambling brief, which contains no point headings, notwithstanding the requisites of Rule 2:6-2(a)(5), plaintiffs suggest that each judge erred in determining that the doctrine of res judicata precluded plaintiffs' causes of action against the various defendants. Before addressing this issue, we note that plaintiffs' argument alleging error by the motion judge in dismissing Wing from the litigation is not properly before us. Plaintiff's notice of appeal did not include the January 7, 2005 order within the scope of plaintiffs' appeal as required by Rule 2:5-1(f)(3)(A). We therefore decline to discuss this matter further. See e.g., Sikes v. Twp. of Rockaway, 269 N.J. Super. 463, 465-66 (App. Div. 1994).
The doctrine of res judicata "contemplates that when a controversy between parties is once fairly litigated and determined it is no longer open to relitigation." Lubliner v. Bd. of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 33 N.J. 428, 435 (1960). Where the second action is no more than a repetition of the first, the first suit stands as a barrier to the second. Culver v. Ins. Co. of N. Amer., 115 N.J. 451, 460 (1989). Application of the doctrine requires that:
(1) the judgment in the prior action must be valid, final, and on the merits; (2) the parties in the later action must be identical to or in privity with those in the prior action; and (3) the claim in the later action must grow out of the same transaction or occurrence as the claim in the earlier one. [Watkins v. Resorts Int'l Hotel & Casino, Inc., 124 N.J. 398, 412 (1991) (citations omitted).]
Based upon our study of the record, we are satisfied that Judges Colalillo and Fernandez-Vina properly applied these principles. The decision in the CFTC proceeding, which involved identical parties and the same transaction presented in the matter at hand, resulted in a valid, final, binding judgment on the merits. See 17 C.F.R. § 12.106(d) ("a final decision shall be recognized as a final order of the Commission for all other purposes including the judicial enforcement of an award made in connection with the final decision"). That judgment precludes plaintiffs' current suit, which is an attempt to relitigate a perceived unsatisfactory result. The trial court's grant of summary judgment and/or dismissal of the complaint was appropriate as defendants were entitled to judgment as a matter of law. R. 4:46-2(c).
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