Posts Tagged: Boteach Rwanda
Are Rwandan Troops the Solution for Gaza?
What to do about Gaza and Hamas? How can Israel avoid a war of attrition - with Hamas endlessly firing rockets and Israel being forced...
Holocaust Denial and the Rwandan Genocide
No sooner had I returned from the twentieth anniversary commemorations of the Rwandan genocide in Kigali, than I saw Howard French's assault on the man...
Rwanda Demands a Muscular Morality
Kigale, Rwanda - Last week saw the twentieth anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide, which took the lives of nearly one million Tutsis...
Elie Wiesel and Rwandan President Discuss Genocide and Syria
There were several important news-making items that emerged from the historic discussion on genocide that our organization staged on Sunday September 29, at Cooper Union's...
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on Rwanda and Syria (INTERVIEW)
JNS.org - Known as "America's rabbi," Shmuley Boteach has lived an unconventional life for an Orthodox rabbi—from running for the U.S. Congress, to authoring...
Will Syria be Obama’s Rwanda?
When I visited Rwanda last month, I was preceded by President Clinton who arrived the day before. Clinton is a regular visitor to Rwanda and...
Humans Have the Potential to Scale Mountains
It is midnight. It is cold. We are headed north. And up... A full moon lights the night. Covered by countless layers of Gore-Tex and fleece, we...
Why They Hate Israel and America
Boy, do they hate America. I'm on a flight in Tanzania, having just left Rwanda, when I meet a very fine Pakistani family going on safari. We...
Pangs of Conscience in the Plains of Serengeti
Readers of my column are aware that I returned to Africa to further my understanding of the Rwandan genocide and highlight the slaughter, so that...
Netanyahu and Kagame: Fulfilling the Promise of ‘Never Again’
Having sat with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel and President Paul Kagame of Rwanda in the same week, there is an immediate symmetry one sees...
‘Never Again’ in Rwanda
Rwanda might not be everyone's idea of a family trip, but it's one of my favorite places in the world. And after visiting last year...
Why I’m Traveling To Rwanda in the Middle of My Congressional Campaign
I always promised myself that if I ever ran for public office I would highlight anti-genocide legislation as one of the principal planks of my...