Archive for the ‘Righteous People of All Faiths’ Category
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
By: Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Center for Interreligious Understanding
Professor Marshall Breger, Catholic University of America
Suhail A. Khan, Institute for Global Engagement
The Very Reverend Dr. James A. Kowalski, Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
We are here as a single voice that comes from the three Abrahamic faiths, because we are seeing a new slogan ripple from downtown Manhattan across the US. Its timing particularly resonates as some of us have just returned from an unprecedented tour of concentration campsin Europe, where we stood side by side with a delegation of the most influential US Imams and Muslim leadership. Together, those of us who are Jewish and Muslim, came face-to-face with the unambiguous lesson that religious demonization can and does lead to unimaginable violence and horror.
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
July 31, 2010
An Aboriginal elder is to be honoured for his unique role in opposing Nazi Germany’s persecution of Jews, with a memorial to be unveiled at Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum.
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Sunday, May 16th, 2010
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Contrary to the hopes of many, the end of the Second World War and the shock of the Nazi atrocities did not mean the end of war and genocide. Indeed, the decades following it have been rife with bloody conflicts in which entire population groups have been murdered. Remember Angola’s civil war, the Khmer Rouge’s massacre of millions of Cambodians, Rwanda’s tribal wars, the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the extermination of Christians in Southern Sudan. Nor should we forget the Stalinist crimes against the peoples of the former Soviet Empire.
And yet there is something unique about the Holocaust that made the United Nations single it out and devote a special day to its commemoration. The difference lies not only in the mind-boggling number of victims and the ferocity with which it was perpetuated, but also in the absence of the usual motives found in other massacres and genocides.
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Sunday, May 16th, 2010
May 10, 2010
“I will be named officially in Rwanda on June 5th, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environmental Programme,” he said. “I’ll be in Rwanda on June 5th.”
The UNEP provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
German History in Documents and Images
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
By Lauren Green
- FOXNews.com
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theological genius of the 20th century, is now emerging as a, martyr and spy — a war hero who conspired to assassinate Adolf Hitle
On April 9, 1945, 65 years ago today, just a few weeks before an allied offensive brought Germany to its knees and ended World War II in Europe, a young, mild-mannered Lutheran theologian was hanged by the Nazis in Flossenburg Concentration Camp.
His crime … conspiring to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theological genius of the 20th century, is now emerging as a war hero, martyr and spy.
“What is so amazing about the story of Bonhoeffer is that he puts a completely different spin for us as Americans on World War II,” says Eric Metaxas, author of “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy” (Thomas Nelson, 2010), the first biography in 40 years of this influential Christian. The book is being released on Friday, the anniversary of Bonhoeffer’s execution.
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
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 The word “hero” so often conjures up images of the brash and the bold. We may think of Audie Murphy’s WWII exploits, the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the doomed holdouts at the Alamo. But then there are the quiet heroes, people such as Oskar Schindler. Ever since Schindler’s List hit the silver screen in 1993, his clandestine efforts resulting in the rescue of almost 1,200 Jews from Nazi death camps have been well known.
Yet that dark time birthed another quiet hero, one who saved as many as 860,000 Jewish lives. Today, however, few know of his accomplishments, few sing his praises. And Steven Spielberg will undoubtedly never make a movie lauding him. On the contrary, this man is roundly maligned as a WWII villain who was at best indifferent to the plight of the people in the Nazis’ crosshairs. This man is Eugenio Pacelli. But he is better known as Pope Pius XII.
By the lights of the popular culture and the increasingly unpopular media, it is a “fact” that Pius was practically a Nazi collaborator. British journalist John Cornwell’s book Hitler’s Pope got a lot of press after its 1999 publication, and self-professed “anti-theist” Christopher Hitchens never misses a chance to highlight the papacy’s supposed WWII sins and silence. It has become atheist boilerplate, the barbarous vehicle through which barbarian historians sack modern-day Rome.
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Posted in Analysis and Opinion, Antisemitism, Doing the Right Thing, GENOCIDE, Heroism, Holocaust survivors, Interfaith relations, Propaganda, Racism, Refugees, Righteous People of All Faiths, Stereotyping, Stopping Hate, The Holocaust | No Comments »
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
07:53 AM CST on Tuesday, February 23, 2010
By ERIC AASEN / The Dallas Morning News
eaasen@dallasnews.com
Peter Berkowitz hopes he can help students across Texas learn lasting lessons from the Holocaust and more modern genocides – to choose right over wrong and good over evil.
“We do not want the next generation to be bystanders in light of genocides that continue today,” he said. “How do we combat those who wish to perpetrate genocide in the future?”
Berkowitz is chairman of the new Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission, created to preserve information about genocides and improve educational and outreach efforts around the state. Texas becomes the 13th state to form a group dedicated to genocide education.
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Posted in Doing the Right Thing, Education, Human Rights, Museums and Memorials, Preventing Genocide, Righteous People of All Faiths, Stopping Hate, Student Projects, United States | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Over nearly a decade as a New York Times columnist, Nicholas Kristof has managed to do the impossible — every week he gets away with devoting some of journalism’s most valuable real estate to neglected, often depressing, causes. The Pulitzer Prize-winner has reported from 140 countries and raised awareness about Asian sex trafficking, public health crises in pre-earthquake Haiti, and the genocide in Darfur. Now he’s the subject of
Reporter, a documentary that premieres February 18 on HBO. TIME writer Amy Sullivan caught up with Kristof in-between his trips to Congo and the Middle East. “For some reason, I never seem to be setting off for the South of France,” he jokes.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1964474,00.html#ixzz0fp8jEWgl
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
For OpEdNews: Joan Brunwasser – Writer
Welcome to Op Ed News, Syd. Rock and Wrap It Up! is based on a simple idea – that extra food that is prepared but not served should be “recycled” to people who need it rather than dumped in the garbage. Where did the idea come from in?
We were recovering food from Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, NY in 1993, after starting to do so in June 1991. The Black Crowes were playing. The back stage manager, Herb Robinson, showed me their contract rider. It had a sentence that stipulated that they needed a half ounce of pot in each dressing room. I gave Herb a quizzical look. “How could this be?” Herb smiled and said, “They can’t do it but the band wants to show all who see their rider that they support the legalization of marijuana.” It hit me like a thunderbolt. “Can we ask in the rider for food not to go into land fill but feed the hungry?” Herb looked at me. “That is a great idea!”
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
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Celebrities like Mia Farrow and George Clooney may have done more to prolong the suffering of Darfur than resolve the crisis in Sudan’s war-torn region, a new book argues.
“The Save Darfur movement with its celebrity supporters came down very clearly on one particular side of the debate,” says Rob Crilly, author of Saving Darfur, Everyone’s Favourite African War.
“This very simple straight-forward narrative which demanded our intervention was the only view being heard,” he told the BBC.
Crilly arrived in East Africa as a foreign correspondent for the London-based Times newspaper in 2004, a year after the insurgency in Darfur began.
His brief was to cover all of the region’s brutal conflicts – Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the end of the civil war in south Sudan. |
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