Beside the sea: Orthodox Jews read prayers as they perform
the ritual of Tashlich, on the cliffs of the city of Netanya,
overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, on Sunday. Tashlisch is usually
performed on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah the Jewish New Year,
and involves symbolically casting off of sins into a large, natural
body of flowing water
Beside the sea: Orthodox Jews read prayers as they perform
the ritual of Tashlich, on the cliffs of the city of Netanya,
overlooking the Medite...
THE Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a message marking Rosh
Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish New Year, in which he refers
to a General Synod debate that evoked the anger and hurt of many in
the Jewish community (
News, 13 July).
Dr Williams said that he had welcomed the chance to "share
honestly about the tensions between our communities that have
arisen around the recent General Synod private members' motion"
when he met Jewish leaders this summer.
The Synod in June endorsed a motion on backing a World Council
of Churches' Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and
Israel (EAPPI), despite objections from Jewish groups who say that
EAPPI is biased and anti-Israel. The senior vice-president of the
Board of Deputies of British Jews, Jonathan Arkush, described the
Synod debate as "sadly ill-informed, very one-sided, and at times
inappropriately emotive".
Dr Williams had unsuccessfully urged the Synod to remove
reference to EAPPI from the motion. He said that he was concerned
about the effect the motion would have on dialogue with Jewish
communities.
In his latest message to the Jewish community, he reflects on
the "great challenges to the good relationship that we so value
between our two communities."
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