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August 27, 2015
No one ever could have seen this coming.
Some 17 rabbis from New Jersey have joined the NAACP’s Journey for Justice, an 860-mile march from Selma, Ala., to Washington, DC, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act and setting the agenda for civil rights moving forward.
A Torah scroll donated by Temple Sinai in Chicago has accompanied the march for the entire route.
Over 150 rabbis signed up to participate on legs of the march, which began Aug. 1 and will conclude in Washington with a rally on Sept. 16. Participants walk approximately 20 miles each day.
The NJ contingent of rabbis included Philip Bazeley of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple in New Brunswick, Marc Kline of Monmouth Reform Temple in Tinton Falls, David Levy of Temple Shalom in Succasunna, Greg Litcofsky of Temple Emanu-El of West Essex in Livingston, and Laurence Malinger of Temple Shalom in Aberdeen.
Rabbi Joel Abraham of Temple Sholom in Scotch Plains signed up but illness prevented his participation.
The rabbis, all affiliated with the Reform movement, responded to a call from the Religious Action Center, the movement’s policy arm, and other Reform affiliates. The RAC is the only religious organization among the NAACP’s partners for the march.
Most of the local rabbis signed on as soon as they heard about it. “I didn’t think twice. I just said yes,” said Levy, who marched on Aug. 21. “It’s just a central part of the Jewish psyche. We are partners with God in repairing the world, and when the call comes, we are supposed to say yes.”
But he also had a personal reason to march. His father, as a refugee escaping the Holocaust, was helped by random people on his own journey to freedom. “He wouldn’t be alive today if those people had not decided to take a chance and reach out to help him. The only way we can repay them is to pay it forward,” Levy said.
