Report and
urgent request
from Barbara Richmond

From e-mail dated Thursday, 26 Oct 2000 6:47:30 PM

Late news bulletin tonight. Fierce fighting has erupted in
Hebron since about midnight, Israel time, after two nights
of no shootings. Increased warnings have been issued today
by both Israeli security and the US State Department about
imminent terrorism following the suicide bombing this
morning in Gaza. In light of the above, please take to
heart the following message:

What you Can do November 1

Israel is once again on the brink of war and Jewish people
the world over are starting to experience terrorism in
their own nations, as witnessed by synagogue burnings in
Syracuse, NY & France and the stabbing of a Jewish
teenager on a London bus, to mention only a few of many
recent events.

It no longer matters whether you were for or against Oslo
because when the guns are firing on Gilo, the bullets do
not distinguish between left and right. We are one in the
eyes of the Arabs, who seek to make Jerusalem their
capital through stones, molotov cocktails, and machine gun
fire; just as we were one to Hitler, even if it meant going
back 8 generations to find a Jewish relative in one's
lineage.

If the world at large is delivering us a message - that we
are one - perhaps it is time for us to stand up and take
notice of what we are being told.Because, deep down, we all
know one thing. When we are united, when we act
as one - be it in 1948 to create the state of Israel, and
again in 1967 and 1973 when Israel's very existence was in
doubt - we witness miraculous, momentous events. And, time
and again, the Jewish people have been saved.

This is why I, and many others, are calling on every Jew,
and on our many friends, to unite at the same moment to
make a difference.

On Wednesday, November 1 at 6:00 pm Israel time (see below for
your corresponding local time), the first day of the Jewish
month of Cheshvan, Stop, Stand Still and Unite with your
fellow Jews in the following prayer:

Dear God, bring us back from the brink of war and bless us
with peace, wisdom and healing. Guide us together in love
and harmony to our destiny. May we find only favor in each
other and witness the hopeful vision of swords beaten into
plowshares, each under his vine and fig tree, unafraid,
soon in our days.

Just Imagine... For one minute Jews of all backgrounds,
nationalities and affiliations will be united, overlooking the
differences that so blindly divide us, to share the love and heritage
that bind us together for 3000 years.

For one minute, our voices will be joined together in the
same thought, united in the same concern of love for
Israel, our fellow Jews and world peace.

For one minute, all our spiritual, emotional and physical
resources will be united together in the quest for a true
and lasting peace.

Just as the Jews of Israel stand together for moments of
silence and respect each spring in honor of the 6 million
and our fallen soldiers, let us all join together to take a
stand for our future.

Calculate your local time to coincide with Israel at 6:00
p.m., which will be 11:00 am eastern standard time (New
York), 10:00 am central time(Chicago) and 8:00 am pacific
coast time (Los Angeles), 5:00 pm in Paris, 4:00 pm in
London, and 2:00 pm in Sao Paulo.

Please distribute the following as widely as possible
through e-mail. Print it out and post it in your
workplaces, schools, synagogues, temples and local coffee
shops. Please translate it into your language and
distribute to your network of family, friends and
colleagues. Use this text to run an advertisement in your
local paper if you can. And remember to set your watches,
alarms, and palm pilots to your equivalent of 6:00 pm
Israel time on November 1.

Join with thousands of Jews and Christians in prayer on
November 1. May the Lord bless you from Zion.

Shalom,

Barbara

http://www.foryourglory.org