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During my first few years as the lone Prog M. P., I found myself confronted by a series of vicious laws designed to undermine civil rights and to intensify discrimination…
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Helen Suzman
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New York, United States of America
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1993
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What does the Voice of Auschwitz command?
Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember…
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Emil L. Fackenheim
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New York City, United States of America
(Toronto, Canada)
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1969
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Today we are proud to stand as “am echad,” one people united in solidarity with the people of Darfur, victims of a government-sponsored genocide. In an extraordinarily unified effort, the leaders of…
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David A. Harris, Ruth Messinger
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New York, United States of America
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2005
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Your Holiness,
As the Chief Rabbi of this community, whose history goes back thousands of years, I wish to express to you my intense satisfaction at the gesture you have wished to carry out today…
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Elio Toaff
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Washington D.C., United States of America
(Rome, Italy)
Date:
1986
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What, exactly, has the argument been about—apart from the words themselves? Have the Jews and the blacks been fighting all this time over political spoils? Not especially. Over economic interests…
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Paul Berman
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New York, United States of America
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1994
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A simple searing truth emerges from the vast body of research and writing on the Holocaust. It is that European Jewry was ground to dust between the twin millstones of a murderous Nazi intent and a…
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Henry L. Feingold
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New York, United States of America
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1979
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When should Jews in one country start protesting about what they perceive as the peril of Jews in another country?
To answer the question, we must first analyze the specific conditions of the…
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Henry I. Sobel
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New York City, United States of America
(São Paulo, Brazil)
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1982
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With the inevitable end of Hitler, the struggle begins, not of tank and plane, but of heart and soul and brain to forge a world in which humanity may live in peace. This new world must be based on the…
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American Jewish Committee
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New York, United States of America
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1944
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[ . . . ] That the status of the Jews in Europe has been not only that of an oppressed people but also of what Max Weber has called a “pariah people” is a fact most clearly appreciated by those who…
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Hannah Arendt
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1944