Nuclear Disarmament

B’Siata Dishamaya Shalom everyone. I’m Rabbi Greg Hersh, a member of Rabbis4Ceasefire and Jewish Voice For Peace Rabbinical Council. This September, I’m launching a new community in Cambridge called V’ahavtah: A Judaism beyond Zionism Synagogue.  We gather on this solemn 80th anniversary of the bombings of […]

On Wednesday, August 6th, MAPA, the American Friends Service Committee, The Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Security, and other local and national peace organizations hosted a commemoration on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The commemoration opened at noon with […]

by Tom Valovic Originally published in Common Dreams.  The meme-contour of recent articles seems to invite a casual shoulder shrug with respect to the dark road that we’re now heading down and to minimize the powder keg of conflict looming in the Middle East. As […]

By Jeanne Trubek Many of us have been concerned about nuclear weapons for a long time. Reading Annie Jacobson’s 2024 book, Nuclear War: A Scenario, changed “concerned” to “terrified” and recent events upped it to “panicked”. At each stage we wonder, “is there anything we […]

by Joseph Gerson This piece was originally published in Common Dreams. War is Not the Answer Ever since Senator Kennedy’s campaign to transform Boston into a nuclear weapons base was defeated 40 years ago, I have had the extraordinary privilege of working with Japanese and […]