In a month when Sarah Palin dominated the news, and when we are so often bombarded by intellectual lightweights, the Assistant Rabbi of our congregation quoted one of the true geniuses of my faith, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.  (z”l )(that is a Jewish hyphenate that means “may his memory be for a blessing).   

In a telegram to President Kennedy one month before his (Kennedy’s) murder, Rabbi Heschel wrote “We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate Negroes.  The hour calls for high moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.” 

High moral grandeur and spiritual audacity!! 

You know, I had almost forgotten that words like that could be spoken, written, thought. 

Ranmar