Natan Sharansky
“We need a united global response every day and at all times, because it is largely a problem of information, so we have to ensure the right messages are getting across,” says new board chair Natan Sharansky.
“It has become comfortable and even praiseworthy to hold positions on Jews that would not be acceptable against any other people,” he said.
“The Kremlin feels absolutely isolated, and is looking for points of weakness,” says the former Jewish Agency chairman.
“Start with Jews,” insists Natan Sharansky. “Try to convince them it is very important to their own survival. Then it is easy to move to non-Jews the moment you have Jews on your side.”
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“It is a real fight against good and evil. The challenge is so much bigger, and, of course, the world as [the Russian president] wants to change is not the world in which Jews and Israel want to live,” said Natan Sharansky.
The ProZ course “is designed to empower young people who want to defend Israel where it counts today, on social media,” says Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
On the 80th anniversary of the mass genocide the Nazis and their collaborators committed against Ukrainian Jews, a memorial center being built on the site will tell the story of the 1941 atrocity.
In this wide-ranging interview, Ellie Cohanim speaks with former Soviet refusenik, human-rights activist, Israeli politician and author Natan Sharansky.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken highlighted the global challenges for democracy, the plight of political prisoners around the world and the importance of combating anti-Semitism in all of its forms.
A panel of activists debate contemporary anti-Semitism with many decrying the false contradiction too often presented between being both progressive and Jewish.
Since the establishment of independent Ukraine, Jews have been acknowledged; however, attempts to create an official memorial that honors all victims and provides a framework to impart the message of the Holocaust—of “Never Again”—have repeatedly stalled.
