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Shiryn Ghermezian

“These are all very powerful, very poignant and emotional stories. They are stories that are largely unknown to the larger world, including many in the Jewish community,” said AJC CEO David Harris.
From left: Award winners at the Emunah of America event Dalia Horowitz, Yael Oelbaum Fligelman, Ilana Wallenstein, Yonina Haber and Sora Grunstein on June 8, 2022. Credit: Lia Jay Photography.
‘Women of Wonder’ celebrates sisterhood at Emunah of America event
“The World Zionist Congress is the ‘parliament of the people.’ This is the best way for American Jews to vote for their voice in Israel,” said Herbert Block of the American Zionist Movement.
She charged the world body for exhibiting a “culture of entitlement and unaccountability,” as well as a “culture of bullying” that has causes it to “time and again” fail to “live up to its charter.”
“For many reasons, awareness of our communities’ history is not at the level it should be. We welcome any opportunity to educate and engage diplomats and foreign dignitaries on the story of the ignored and forgotten Jewish refugees,” said JIMENA board member Nathaniel Malka.
“The ADL has failed to call out any form of anti-Semitism that isn’t borne of white supremacy, and their curriculum is more about tolerance and racism in general than it is about the unique history of anti-Semitism,” said Bryan Leib, a board member of Americans Against Anti-Semitism.
“Too many people in the Labour Party believed it was just a case of a few bad apples for far too long,” said former Labour Party MP Joan Ryan at the ADL’s “Never Is Now” summit. “By the time Labour became institutionally anti-Semitic, it was far too late to root out the Jew-haters.”
“We need to work outside of our bubble and build a global movement of interfaith groups that understand the needs of working together to end this cycle of hate,” says Sacha Roytman Dratwa, director of a movement called Combat Anti-Semitism.
The 33-page dossier “reveals the disturbing truth about anti-Semitism at one of the highest-regarded universities in the United States,” said Avi Gordon, executive director of the NGO Alums for Campus Fairness.
“The unintended consequences of this horror are so incredibly positive and uplifting, something no one could have anticipated. … Still, it is easy to lose hope, and we seem to be drowning in an epidemic of mass violence with no end in sight,” Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.