Take Action
On Sunday evening, April 25, 2010, at Mishkan Shalom in the Manayunk neighborhood of Philadelphia, The Shalom Center is honoring Pulitzer Prize playwright and movie-maker Tony Kushner ("Angels in America" and "Munich"), award-winning documentary film-maker Ilana Trachtman ("Praying with Lior"), Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, Lynne Iser, and Cantor Jack Kessler, as Prophetic Voices of our Generation.
There will be a catered dinner at 5 p.m, followed by the awards celebration at 7.
This evening's event will include a 25 minute interview of Tony Kushner by Ilana Trachtman on Kushner's work to light up a blazing prophetic vision through the arts, and a musical performance by master-musician Cantor Jack Kessler.
RIGHT NOW, WRITE YOUR SENATORS to stop the most destructive single action the US Senate could take toward the people of the United States: forbidding the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating CO2 emissions.
Some Senators, to protect Big Oil and Big Coal from regulation that will save our children’s lives, are planning to choke the life out of EPA and thereby also choke our country and our planet in scorching heat. Senators led by Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who never saw an oil well she didn’t worship, are trying to do just that.
You can help prevent this travesty by writing your own Senators. We have provided a model text, which we hope you will modify with your own words.
See our Green Menorah websection for detailed information on climate/ energy policy and on how to shape the celebration of festivals and life-cycle markers like Tu B’Shvat, Hanukkah, bar/bat mitzvah, etc to healing the earth and preventing climate catastrophe.