We received word today that Westboro will be picketing the two synagogues in town this Shabbat, right before they picket Dr. Tiller's funeral. I will consider it a badge of honor.
Dr. Tiller's clinic will not close; the need is too great, the cause too important, the courage of the people on the front lines too strong. Somehow, when the next couple calls from New Jersey or North Carolina or Arkansas or Vermont, the phone will be answered and there will be people in Wichita to help.
*Out of respect, I use the letter "G" to refer to the Eternal.
Rabbi Michael A. Davis has been the spiritual leader of Congregation Emanu-El http://www.emanuelict.org since August 1995. A third generation Reform rabbi, Rabbi Davis received his rabbinic ordination from the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York, a post-denominational rabbinical seminary, and also pursued graduate rabbinic studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, Israel and Cincinnati, OH. He recently completed an intensive study program in pastoral counseling at The Jewish Institute for Pastoral Care (now The Center for Studies in Jewish Pastoral Care) in association with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He has extensive experience in Jewish education and communal activities, programming, and community and multi-cultural work. In Wichita, Rabbi Davis has served as president of the Board of Inter-Faith Ministries and past board member of the Counseling and Mediation Center.
The photograph shows Rabbi Michael Davis of Temple Emanu-El consoling Anne Garvey at Sunday night's vigil for Dr. Tiller in Wichita, Kansas.
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