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Tashlich Ritual & Action to Mark One Year of War – Hoyt Lake
October 6 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
Tashlich Ritual & Action to Mark One Year of Genocide
When: Sunday, October 6th, 5:30 pm
Where: Hoyt Lake
MOURN THE DEAD, FIGHT FOR THE LIVING – On October 6th, 2024 JVP Buffalo will be taking part in a nation-wide mass public ritual-action for the 5785 High Holy Days season, to channel grief into action to stop the genocide in Palestine.
On October 6th, we will grieve 76 years of Palestinian death and dispossession by the Israeli regime. We will grieve the Israelis killed and taken hostage on 10/7. We will grieve the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed, tortured, displaced, kidnapped, and starved this year.
The only way to end the violence is to stop sending arms to the Israeli military, which is putting everyone’s life at risk. We call on the U.S. government to stop sending weapons and funding to the Israeli military. For the survival of everyone in the region, we need an arms embargo now.
This year, our spiritual crisis demands attending to for the sake of our movements’ spiritual health. Our pain has only multiplied over the past year; it is coupled by rage that the Israeli and US governments’ claim that Jewish grief and fear is justification for genocide. Repair requires action and the Tashlich ritual is the perfect container for the marriage of this work.
Tashlich means to cast away and in this ancient ritual we cast away our transgressions in preparation for the New Year. This year casting away our transgressions requires casting away our complicity in the Israeli military’s genocide. We call on the U.S. government to implement an immediate arms embargo now. We demand: STOP ARMING ISRAEL.
To make this ritual-action visually powerful and in keeping with the tradition of wearing white for the High Holy Days, please wear all white.
We will have banners and signs with our key message – “We mourn for the dead and fight for the living.” And “Arms embargo now”.
Please leave signs and other apparel at home until the next protest!
We will meet at Hoyt Lake at 5:30PM.
Art Build for 10/6 Ritual & Action
When: Sunday, September 29th, 3-5pm
Where: 89 Plymouth Ave
Come help us paint banners, pick songs, and phone bank to encourage folks to attend the 10/6 ritual and action. Kids are welcome, snacks and supervision will be available!
This October represents one year of the fight for a ceasefire and to stop arming Israel in light of the current genocide, at a time when we are all feeling the need for support and community. One way you can help us keep up this work is by becoming an official member of our JVP Buffalo pod. If you are not already a member, please consider joining Jewish Voice for Peace through our Buffalo pod: https://act.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/a/buffalo-donate (making a donation of $18 yearly or more will make you a member). If you are already a member, please make sure that you if you have recurring payments they are going to the Buffalo pod, as this counts towards our membership numbers as well as the funds we can use to support events, actions, and community donations.