Join Us In Working Toward Help For Darfur

It's easy to look at what's happening in Darfur and look away. What is going on there is nightmare evil - the United States government has declared it to be genocide, something we Jews know about - but it's happening far from home, in a country about which we know very little. How, many of us wonder, can we possibly make a difference? As it turns out, if each one of us speaks up clearly, together we can begin to make our voices heard. If we do something as simple as sending a postcard urging the government to take action, the government will listen. How do we know? Because it's starting to happen already.

We at the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism are asking Conservative Jews to send postcards with the logos of the branches of our movement through the Save Darfur campaign. To order postcards with the Conservative movement's logos, either go to www.millionvoicesfordarfur.org and write "Conservative Movement Cards" in the comment section, or talk directly to Lindsey Petersen at the Save Darfur Coalition.

You can write to Lindsey at this address:

Save Darfur Coalition
2120 L, Street
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20037

Call her at 202-478-6148 or email her at Lindsey@savedarfur.org.

Once you have the postcard, return to our website, www.uscj.org/Save_Darfur6943.html, for more instructions on sending the postcards out to individual members, who will sign and return them; and on returning those bundled postcards to the Rabbinical Assembly, which will forward them to the White House.

We are also asking Conservative Jews to join with us, the rest of the Jewish community, and the other American faith communities to mark April 2 through April 9 as the Week of Prayer and Action for Darfur. It is a time to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur. For more information, go to www.savedarfur.org/faith. We are also asking any Conservative Jews who can do so to join us at a rally sponsored by the Save Darfur Coalition in Washington DC on April 30. Read about it on our website.

For more information about the crisis in Darfur and our response to it, go to www.savedarfur.org, www.ajws.org, or www.jewishpublicaffairs.org, or email mid-atlantic@uscj.org.