Entries from April 2006

April 28, 2006

US Jews at Forefront of Organizing Rally for Darfur

JERUSALEM POST — April 28, 2006
Thousands of people will be marching this Sunday in Washington DC under a banner that carries a simple two- word demand: “Save Darfur.”
This is the name of the coalition organizing the rally, the first public action of its size intended to focus attention on the past three years of mass [...]

April 14, 2006

50 Years Later a World of Holocaust Memories is Exposed

JERUSALEM POST — April 14, 2006
For most Holocaust survivors coping with life after the war meant forgetting the past placing the memories of lost people and places in a metaphorical box and leaving it shut.
This was what Sala Garncarz did. After five years in seven different labor camps and losing her parents and much of [...]

April 2, 2006

Leftist US Jews: Election Results Vindicate Mitzna

JERUSALEM POST — April 2, 2006
Hope might be too strong a word to describe the sentiment Tuesday evening at the New York headquarters of the New Israel Fund an organization that supports social justice and coexistence programs in Israel.
However for the few dozen supporters of the Israeli left who gathered to watch the election [...]