Vigil for murdered young gay IsraelisBy Marke B.
This Saturday saw the awful murder of two young people in Tel Aviv and the wounding of 10 others when a masked gunman burst into a gay community center and started firing.
Tonight, starting at 5:30pm at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav, a vigil procession will walk to the LGBT Center to show solidarity with the gay community in Tel Aviv. Here's the full statement from the organizers:
Dear Friends,Please join together with us Monday evening August 3rd for a San Francisco memorial in the face of meaningless murder at the LGBT Center in Tel Aviv.
Together we will gather at Congregation Sha'ar Zahav 290 Dolores Street at 5:30 pm.
We will walk from Sha'ar Zahav by 6:00 pm to the San Francisco LGBT Center at 1800 Market Street.
When we arrive together at the LGBT Center at 6:30 pm Rabbi Camille Shira Angel, Supervisor Bevan Dufty, among others, will offer words of meaning.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this attack, their families, friends and communities.
l'Shalom,
Lisa Finkelstein, LGBT Alliance of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin & Sonoma Counties
Samuel Strauss, LGBT Alliance of the Jewish Community Federation of the Greater East Bay
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Comments (3)
I guess that those "words of meaning" will not include the truism that a society based on violence directed against demonized "others," civilians in Beiruit or Gaza, loses the capacity to limit demonization to designated "others."
-marc
Posted by marcos | August 3, 2009 06:16 PM
Guessing doesn't count, marc.
Posted by Marke B. | August 4, 2009 12:39 PM
Apparently, Lebanese and Gazan civilians don't feel pain the way that we gay Ashkenazi Jews do, eh, Marke?
-marc
Posted by marcos | August 5, 2009 08:15 AM