Dear friends, Today, on Yom HaShoah, we remember the horrors of the Holocaust, and we commemorate all who were lost. We also honor the survivors who through their very resilience have given hope to the world that even the darkest of times can be dispelled, and light can follow. The dual memories of loss and…
With the continuing spread and deep uncertainty about the impact of COVID-19 Coronavirus on our community, we at Jewish World Watch want you to know that your health and safety is uppermost in our minds. We have therefore decided to postpone our April Walks to End Genocide until late October. The Conejo Valley Walk will…
We have just closed the book on what was, in so many ways, an extremely difficult year. The Rohingya, Darfuris and Syrians, as well as the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Uyghurs in China – all survivors of genocides and mass atrocities – have needed our support more than ever. We have all also been deeply alarmed by multiple murderous outbursts…
Dear Friend, On Saturday a 19-year-old gunman filled with hatred entered the Chabad of Poway sanctuary, which was filled with worshipers on the last day of Passover. He murdered one woman, Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, when she heroically jumped in front of the Chabad’s rabbi, Yisroel Goldstein, to protect him. Rabbi Goldstein’s life was saved,…
Dear Friend, In so many ways, we have just closed the book on an extremely difficult year. The Rohingya, Darfuris, Sudanese and South Sudanese, as well as the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Syria and now Yemen, all have needed our support more than ever, and throughout the past year you made clear that you…
We are all connected, and our hearts are broken. As the tragic news poured out of Pittsburgh on Saturday morning, many Jews in Los Angeles spoke of their own close ties to the Tree of Life Synagogue, where 11 people were murdered during a Shabbat morning service by a gunman spewing anti-Semitic hatred. We see…
The holiday of Yom Kippur offers a time for reflection, a time to see ourselves as inextricable from a larger community, sharing responsibility not only for our own lives, but also those of others. I think of the concept of shared responsibility often in our work at Jewish World Watch — not in the promises…
Reflections on the horror at Charlottesville… Until this past weekend, Charlottesville, Va., was best known as the home of the University of Virginia, one of the best universities in the country. It was also touted as the home of Thomas Jefferson, a founding father and champion of free speech and free press, albeit also a…
The excerpt below is from a recent Op-Ed piece in the Jewish Journal by Susan Freudenheim: Each year, we gather with family and friends for our Passover seder. We lift the matzo and remember how we were once slaves in the land of Egypt. We talk about the blood, locusts, boils, hail and so on,…
Last Friday, the White House did not mention Jews in its Holocaust Remembrance Day message; it was the first time that the 6 million Jews who died have been overlooked in an official message of this sort. Jewish organizations were outraged, including the Zionist Organization of America, which otherwise supports the new Trump administration. Nevertheless,…