Resolution Adopted
by the CCAR
IRAQ
Adopted by the 114th Annual
Convention
of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Omni Shoreham, Washington D.C.
March, 2003
The Central
Conference of American Rabbis, representing more than 1800 rabbis
throughout the United States, Canada, Israel and around the world,
many of varied opinion concerning the military conflict in Iraq,
stands together in its prayers for the security and safe return of
military personnel and civilians, separated from home and family,
serving bravely far from home. We also pray for the safe return of
those taken prisoner. We mourn the loss of all military personnel and
civilians killed, and we mourn the loss of all human life in the
conflict. May God comfort their loved ones. May all despotism vanish
speedily from the Earth. We pray that all peoples, here, in Iraq and
around the world be shielded from war and terror, and that the day
come soon when the word of the prophet Isaiah be fulfilled: “They
shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning
hooks; nation shall not lift up sword again nation, neither shall they
learn war any more. And all shall sit under vine and fig tree, with
none to make them afraid.”