It is time to use the influence we have in our own communities to build a lobby of sorts.

Every one knows someone in there community that is either political or a part of the Judiciary process. If you don’t, You haven’t been to Shul lately. Change of any kind takes time to bring to fruition. We need to start mounting preasure and influence in a world that is trying very hard to forget us again. It is time to start making our voices heard again. We need to do more than just gain active individuals. We need to slowly gain active communities. I see so many communities just focus on issues not related to community survival in the United States. We fail to educate our children fully and they slowly loose touch with our communities and loose their Jewish Identity. We need to create methods that help them get involved in thier communities again. Give them reasons to be proud to be a Jew again.

We have looked at the issues in the world that can cause us grief as a people. We deal with Muslim and Christian extremes trying to convert or kill us. We are the most educated group of people in the world. We have been forced to take over industries and jobs that some felt were beneath them until they realized exactly how important those jobs were. That is all they left us with and they scream conspiracy because we dominate those fields. I say that we start chatting with the influential in our communities. We effectivly use this to help protect our communities. If we all make this push, we can slowly bring the “accepted” way of thinking to reflect that our continuation is paramount.

I know I am on a soap box. I look at the forums on many Jewish websites and I see very few of us post but a great number read. We ALL have to take a more active stance in expressing our opinions and thoughts to preserve our way of life. It doesn’t matter where you are or where you are from. You are a Jew. We need to bring the feeling that we are proud to be jews and we are one people back into every community. When we loose this sense of oneness is when the world decides to pick on us. We all came here because we believe in Never Again. The world is trying to pick on us again because our communities are willing to take it to avoid the conflict. That makes no sense. People are affraid of change and conflict for some reason. If it weren’t for both we would not have had the advancements in our quality of life in the last 100 yrs.

If we work hard to show that we can ALL be Jews and of one mind and stand behind Never Again. They will no longer have the stomach to call us evil because we were tired of having rockets fired at us. They will no longer say that all their troubles are our fault. They will stop trying to blow us up or turn a confused world against us and our children. We need to start with our own communities and use the influence we have as Jews to gain peace however we are left to do so.

I am done on my soap box for now but think about it seriously. Do you want you kids to be beat up at a colleage or school because they are a JEW while the world decides that it was ok to do so?

Remember this is a call to bring peacful values and pride back to our communities. This is a call to bring action to Tikun Olam which is our obligation as Jews.