Read eResponse April Issue - Holocaust Remembrance Week: Anti-Semitic Incidents Up by 100%

April 14, 2010

Yom Hashoah Commemorative Issue
Volume 31, Issue 4 - April 2010

 

SWC TESTIFIES AT CONGRESSIONAL HEARING ON “COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM: PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS”

Photo: "Die Jews" spray-painted during Passover, at a hotel in Santa Teresita, Argentina (courtesy Agencia Judia de Noticias).

"The number of violent incidents recorded in 2009 ... represented an increase of more than 100 percent... . In addition, many more hundreds of threats, insults, graffiti signs and slogans and demonstrations featuring virulently antisemitic content were registered, sometimes resulting in violence."
          —The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism


Read Rabbi Abraham Cooper's Full SWC Testimony Delivered Today at the U.S. House of Representative’s Committee on Foreign Affairs Hearing in Washington DC 
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Children and grandchildren of Holocaust Heroes and the Jews they hid in Holland reunite at Museum of Tolerance on Yom Hashoah
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SWC releases 9th Annual Status Report on Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals; Germany, U.S., praised
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Canada’s former Justice Minister, MP Irwin Cotler in SWC’s Yom Hashoah keynote: “Indict Ahamadinjad for Incitement to Genocide”
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SWC headlines Yom Hashoah Commemoration in Porto Alegre, Brazil; site of numerous anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incidents 
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New Russian edition of "The Generic Hatred: Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal" released at Scholars Conference on the Holocaust
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Rabbi Marvin Hier’s Holocaust Remembrance Day address:
Each year, we remember the enormity of the greatest crime committed by human beings ...
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Museum of Tolerance, Family Sunday, Holocaust Remembrance Day: Museum visitors hear from Holocaust survivors and view Holocaust artifacts 
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SWC Moriah Films
movies now showing on STARZ Network

Genocide
Starz Cinema
April 15 5:15am

Unlikely Heroes
Starz Kids & Family
11:10 PM May 3 & 25 3:25am
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Purchase other Moriah Films documentaries
Visit the online store

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• LOS ANGELES •

MUSIC, MEMORY AND MORALITY
How and Why Wagner Matters
With Maestro James Conlon

Thursday, April 15, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Museum of Tolerance

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This Holocaust Memorial Day: Dr. Al-Fulaij Demonstrates the Only Thing Worse Than Holocaust Denial

On April 12th Jews the world over will gather to pray for the souls of six million of our brothers and sisters who were mass murdered by Nazi Germany between 1939-45. That genocide, today referred to as the Shoah, or Holocaust, is the most documented "crime against humanity" in history. But that has not stopped people like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from labeling the Nazi Holocaust as "myth" or "hoax".
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