NATIONAL SCENE
March / April 2010
Holocaust Survivor
Urges Students To Never Be Indifferent
Photo Credit: Nathan
Latil, University Brand Photography
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel spoke to a group of more than 1000 at the University of Mississippi’s Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. "I am fondly moved being here with you tonight," he said. "And because of your past, I am touched even more." Wiesel – professor, award-winning author, Nobel Peace Prize winner, human rights advocate – is perhaps best known for his 1986 book "Night," which recounts the almost 11 months he spent as a Jewish prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Jewish World Watch and Los Angeles Area High Schools
Raised $115,000 for the Darfur Dream Team
to build two schools for refugee students. More than 250 students, parents, and
activists joined Jewish World Watch and Los Angeles Clippers star Baron Davis
of the Darfur Dream Team at Calabasas High School to raise money and awareness
for the thousands of refugee students in Darfur who have been deprived of an
education. Jewish World
Watch, a Los Angeles-based human rights organization, is a coalition of 64
synagogues working together to combat genocide and other egregious violations
of human rights worldwide. www.jewishworldwatch.org.
Photo L to R: Tzivia Schwartz Getzug, Executive Director, Jewish World Watch; John Prendergast, Enough Co-Founder; Baron Davis, LA Clippers, and Janice Kamenir-Reznik, Co-Founder and President, Jewish World Watch.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Physicians affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev (BGU) were among the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) medical and rescue
delegation in Haiti. The delegation's 236 members included 218 IDF soldiers and
officers and 18 civilians. Among the delegation were Dr. Lior Geller, Dr. Eretz
Karp and Dr. Gilbert Sebbag, who are lecturers in the Joyce and Irving Goldman
Medical School in BGU’s Faculty of Health and Sciences. Also
participating on the team was Dr. Avi Yizhak, Israel’s first Ethiopian doctor,
who received his medical degree at BGU and is now a surgeon at Soroka
University Medical Center in Beer-Sheva.
U.S. Holocaust Museum
The President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, presented United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield with the Officers
Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland in recognition of the
Museum’s work in preserving the memory of the victims of the Holocaust,
educating people worldwide about this tragedy and furthering Jewish-Polish
relations. The award was presented at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau
concentration camp on International HolocaustRemembrance Day, January 27,
2010.
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