{"id":30723,"date":"2016-06-17T04:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T10:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=30723"},"modified":"2016-06-17T04:29:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T10:29:44","slug":"ncjw-section-president-decries-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/ncjw-section-president-decries-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"NCJW Section president decries gun violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SUSAN KIERR<\/p>\n<p>The fear engendered by gun attacks on civilians spiked\u00a0Sunday\u00a0when we learned of the mass shooting in Orlando. It occurred on Shavuot, which commemorates the giving of the Torah, the laws intended to help people live together in peace.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly attack on people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer is a contradiction of our basic Jewish values and\u00a0the Talmudic teaching that taking a life is like destroying the universe and saving a life is like saving the universe.<\/p>\n<p>NCJW volunteers and advocates try to turn\u00a0ideas\u00a0into action. So now we join\u00a0all who deplore gun violence and hate crimes. The National office of NCJW is calling out, again, in the name of all of us, for the end of gun violence. We in New Orleans are proud to be included in that call.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Susan Kierr is the president of the Greater New Orleans Section of the National Council of Jewish Women.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"NCJW%20Section%20president%20decries%20gun%20violence\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1651,8790,8795,8861,8788,7362],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30724,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30723\/revisions\/30724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}