Tagged confronting anti-semitism

Op-Ed: Holocaust education is for memory and action
April 21, 2015 / Phyllis Greenberg Heideman, JTA

KRAKOW, Poland (JTA) — The International March of the Living is in its 27th year. In those years, over 220,000 young people from around the globe have come to Poland to study, reflect and remember. They then return to their communities to share their personal reaction to facing the… Read more »

For Jews, Vaclav Havel wasn’t just a friend but a champion of freedom
December 20, 2011 / Ron Kampeas, JTA
Memorial candles in Prague for Vaclav Havel, who died this week. Jewish groups and leaders said the former Czech president was a symbol of freedom, Dec. 18, 2011. (David Short via Creative Commons)

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Vaclav Havel was a friend of the Jews and of Israel, but prominent Jews who mourned his passing this week said the Czech leader’s greatest legacy was his universal message of freedom. “Vaclav Havel was one of the few islands of intellectual freedom in the sea… Read more »