{"id":43266,"date":"2018-05-25T17:21:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T23:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=43266"},"modified":"2018-06-02T04:54:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T10:54:11","slug":"say-little-do-much-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/say-little-do-much-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Little, Do Much: Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI JOSEPH H. PROUSER<\/p>\n

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Some decades earlier, Roman Catholic theologian G.K. Chesterton wrote: “Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes \u2013 our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead\u2026 All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man\u2019s opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man\u2019s opinion, even if he is our father.\u201d  <\/p>\n

For American Jews, the legacy of memory this holiday weekend is two-fold. May we transcend our differences by rejecting hate\u2026 and may we gratefully embrace tradition by \u2013 at the very least \u2013 granting our ancestors a vote as we chart our own course forward.<\/p>\n

(Rabbi Joseph H. Prouser is the rabbi of Temple Emanuel of North Jersey and the National Chaplain of the National Jewish Committee on Scouting.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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