Let Freedom Ring: Bell Ringing Ceremony

D'var Torah: Ringing a Bell of Rights; And What’s Right

Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb (Courtesy) By Rabbi Fred Scherlinder Dobb This week’s Torah portion is Matot-Masei: Numbers 30:2 — 36:13 This week’s double portion concludes the Torah’s main narrative. What’s the final note of this four-book composition, before Deuteronomy starts its retelling? What’s the last story about? Rights, land and Jubilee. Last Shabbat ended with July 4 fireworks. This week’s Jubilee theme should ring a similar bell: The Li…

Let Freedom Ring: Bell Ringing Ceremony

Local chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) hosted the “Let Freedom Ring” bell ringing ceremony on July 4 at the University of the Cumberlands in recognition of the first 13 states to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Hosted by the Captain Charles Gatliff Chapter of the SAR and the William Whitley Chapter of the DAR, the ceremony celebrated America’s 250th anniversary with a reading of t…