I just heard President Obama’s discussion about the policy recommendations concerning gun control. He mentioned that the clergy should weigh in on this subject. I have always felt that the job of clergy is to define public policy within the context of our Torah. In the Torah it says we are to protect the most vulnerable and those that pray on the weak are the most despicable. Shooting little children is unthinkable and society must try to find a way to protect them. The initiatives that the President is suggesting hopefully will help in this problem, no one knows for sure. However what I do know is that something has to be done. For that reason I support what the President has decided and put forth to the Congress. I suggest we form a letter campaign to send out to our elected officials to urge them to vote for these gun control initiatives.

B’Shira
Cantor Ellen Sussman