Posts Tagged: Rwanda Genocide
In Rwanda, Netanyahu Notes Similarities Between Holocaust, Country’s Genocide
JNS.org - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Rwanda on Wednesday where he toured a memorial to the more than 800,000 victims of the country's...
International Jewish Organization Blasts Israeli-Born Star Natalie Portman for Comments on Holocaust Education
A major Jewish organization rebuked actress Natalie Portman on Monday for saying in a recent interview that Jews put too much emphasis on teaching about...
Natalie Portman Says Holocaust Education Shouldn’t be Used for ‘Fearmongering’
Famed actress Natalie Portman warned on Friday against the use of Holocaust education to evoke fear and paranoia. In an interview with the U.K. Independent she added that...
Why Never Again Keeps Happening – Again and Again
Recently I recounted how I traveled a month ago to Rwanda at the invitation of President Paul Kagame to speak at Amohoro National Stadium for...
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...
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...
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...
The Raging Battle Over Samantha Power
This past week I endured phenomenal criticism from close colleagues who are amazed that I have vouched for my friend Samantha Power as United States...
Women and Children in War
I have been invited to speak at a forum to be held at the United Nations on the suffering and abuse of women and...
Rwanda’s Genocide and Lessons America Hasn’t Learned for Syria
 Walking into the Ntarama Church outside Kigali and witnessing the scenes of mass slaughter that are all around you, I instantly began to gag and...
Two Cultures, Two Genocides, One Story
If you saw David Gewirtzman and Jacqueline Murekatete standing together it would be hard to imagine that they had anything in common. David, eighty-three,...
A German Town Mourns Its Holocaust Past – The DP Camp Story Part 2
We last left Lillian and David Gewirtzman as they were about to meet the Mayor and townspeople of Ulm Germany for the opening...
