Jews and Elections

There is a lot to say about this!

I wrote an op-ed for the New Hampshire Union Leader a week ago Sunday, calling on the presidential candidates one last time to come to a unique forum hosted by myself and six other Nashua-area clergy.  We've been working on this since last spring.  My colleagues in the endeavor:

• Rev. Robert "Odie" Odierna, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
• Rev. Sally Newhall, Nashua Presbyterian Church
• Rev. Matthew Tingler, Christ the King Lutheran Church
• Rev. Allison Palm, Unitarian-Universalist Church of Nashua
• Rev. Dr. Melinda Lamontagne, Pilgrim Church UCC
• Rev. Maggie Lewis, First Baptist Church

I had a lot to say about what Jews ought to bring to the election last Yom Kippur. My sermon talked about the forum, and in the last section about how to be a more Jewish liberal or a more Jewish conservative.

Brand-new article in the Washington Jewish Week about Iowa and New Hampshire -- scroll down to the New Hampshire section, and I'm quoted (pretty accurately!).

I'm hoping between now and Feb. 9 to post some things about candidates that get at the questions we would have asked them.

Comments

[Robert Kaiser]

This was an excellent sermon, the best discussion of Judaism and how it relates to politics that I have ever seen. The ability to speak to people of differing political beliefs in this was is unsurpassed.

I shared it here on our Judaism discussion forum
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1618060978426822/

Shalom,

Robert