Held up the arms of moses so that joshua could defeat the amalachites, the greatest enemy of the jewish people. Today rabbi leonard motomky will give the memorial prayer. Rabbi William Gershon from dallas, president of the Rabbinical Association of the conservative movement will give the prayer for israel. And rabbi fred reiner, chair of the atid Legal Society of the central conference of american rabbis will give the prayer for the United States, and they will help us hold up our hands as a unified people in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in israel. And a great thing about rabbi matonky who is going to go first. As they lead us in the prayers, theyre going to do it quite quickly because we dont have that much time today. And thats not easy for rabbis. Thats hard for rabbis. At this historic gathering of solidarity and support, we have to pause for a moment for the memorial prayer for naftali, gilad, ayali who were kidnapped and murdered for so reason other than they were jew
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The narrativization of our individual/collective past(s), what some would call history, has hardly ever rested on problematizing that past in the interest of national unity. Those who have written about that past, Sierra Leoneans as well as non-Sierra Leoneans, have dwelt on the crass reality of an imaginary and unchanging ethnicity throughout history.
Framing an understanding of that past by employing/deploying the notorious racist binary Colony versus Protectorate gives away what needs to be problematized. For it not only assumes the superiority of the Colony as against the Protectorate, but more importantly underwrites an hierarchisation of peoples and cultures with the West at the top and the rest at the bottom.