28 posts categorized "Darfur"

June 16, 2008: Letter From Refugees Of Genocide Surfaces
Comments: 17 | Categories: Darfur , Ethics , Israel
If you were Prime Minister of England or President of America in 1940, what would you have done if you received the following letter:

October 31, 2007: Egypt Arrests and Deports Sudanese Refugees Sent Back to Egypt by Israel
Comments: 17 | Categories: Darfur , Ethics
Remember when Ehud Olmert decided to deport Sudanese refugees to Egypt, promising that these poor people would not then be arrested or harassed by Egypt and would not be sent back to the Sudan? Remember how human rights activists inside...

October 18, 2007: The Zionist Dream Fulfilled
Comments: 12 | Categories: Darfur , Haredim , Israel , MO & Chardal
The ethically-challenged Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has a plan. Refugees fleeing persecution in Africa who reach Israel will be sent back to Africa and housed in camps. Olmert is said to have reached a deal with Ethiopia to host...

September 9, 2007: Genocide and History – Is Israel Repeating the Errors Made By Britain, America and the West in 1938?
Comments: 17 | Categories: Darfur , History , Israel
Gershom Gorenberg writes: …[Some 1,700 Sudanese have entered Israel from Egypt in recent years, according to Eytan Schwartz of the Committee for Advancement of Refugees from Darfur, a coalition of Israeli groups. Of those, Schwartz says, 500 are from Darfur,...

September 5, 2007: Israel To Grant Citizenship To Darfur Refugees
Comments: 4 | Categories: Darfur , Israel
Bowing to pressure from Jewish groups outside Israel and from activists inside the country, Israel has decided to grant Israeli citizenship to a few hundred refugees from Darfur. The exact number – Israel calls this its "quota" – will be...

June 15, 2007: Israel Turns Over Christian Sudanese Refugees To Islamic Movement
Comments: 28 | Categories: Darfur , Israel , MO & Chardal
How sick is Israel? How sick are Israeli rabbis? Very, very sick. Why? Ha'aretz reports that 42 Sudanese refugees were found by Israeli Bedouin wandering in Be'er Sheva's industrial area. The Bedouin called aid workers and are housing the refugees...

June 6, 2007: Leading Israeli Rabbis: Do Not Help Darfur Refugees Who Reach Israeli Soil
Comments: 50 | Categories: Abdication , Chabad , Chabad & EJs , Darfur , Ethics , Israel , MO & Chardal
Here is a piece by Matthew Wagner from today's Jerusalem Post. Wagner reports Rabbi Dov Lior, the rabbi of Hebron and Kiryat Arba and a leader of the National Religious right wing has ruled that Israel should not aid Darfur...

May 17, 2007: Rabbi Dov Lior – Racist
Comments: 8 | Categories: Darfur , Ethics , MO & Chardal
Rabbi Dov Lior, the rabbi of Kiryat Arba is an ethically challenged individual. Never has this been more clear than today, when Rabbi Lior issued a ruling regarding refugees from Darfur who have fled to safety in Israel. First, Rabbi...

March 20, 2007: Thousands Held As Slaves In Sudan
Comments: 7 | Categories: Darfur
That's right. The BBC reports thousands of southern Sudanese, many Christian, are still held as slaves in Sudan's Arab north. (Some may have been taken from Darfur, as well.) Something to keep in mind as we move from slavery to...

March 18, 2007: Darfur Refugees In Israel – NY Times Reports
Comments: 2 | Categories: Darfur , Israel
The New York Times has a moving piece on Sudanese refugees in Israel. It notes these people were so badly treated in Egypt that they fled to Israel, preferring an Israeli jail to life in Egypt, where security forces have...

February 20, 2007: Arab Militias Mass In Darfur
Comments: 15 | Categories: Darfur
The Arab militias that have so terrorized the residents of the Darfur region of Sudan are reported to be massing in large numbers. While their purpose is not clear, Reuters reports: …"They are massing ... they have vehicles with machineguns...

December 7, 2006: Child Rape as Genocide
Comments: 0 | Categories: Darfur , Hessed
David Rubenstein writes: On Sunday December 10th, as part of UN World Human Rights Day, activists in cities around the world will hold demonstrations in front of the Sudan's embassies to "Raise the Alarm" on Darfur. We have called on...

November 21, 2006: Remember Darfur on Thanksgiving
Comments: 1 | Categories: Darfur
Take a moment, go on line during halftime, and sign this petition. Have the rest of the family do so as well. It will cost you nothing but a few minutes of time, and you might save lives.

June 8, 2006: Urgent Call To Action – US House Vote On Darfur Aid Today
Comments: 0 | Categories: Darfur , Hessed
David Rubenstein from the Save Darfur Coalition writes: Later today the House of Representatives will vote on whether or not to provide critical funding for humanitarian aid in Darfur. In a country where a state-sponsored genocide has already claimed over...

June 8, 2006: Elie Wiesel: Israel Should Take Darfur Refugees
Comments: 5 | Categories: Darfur , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal
In an interview with Ha'aretz's Shar Ilan, Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel has called on Israel to take in refugees from Darfur: In an interview in the upcoming issue of Haaretz Magazine, Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, says, "We as Jews...

June 6, 2006: Darfur Still Needs Your Help
Comments: 2 | Categories: Darfur
As David Rubenstein notes, the genocide still goes on, despite the peace agreement. Take a moment and fill out the online petition. It's one of the easiest mitzvot you'll ever do.

May 12, 2006: Prof. Yehuda Bauer: Gaza Settlers Holocaust Deniers
Comments: 0 | Categories: Chabad , Darfur , Israel , MO & Chardal
Shahar Ilan interviews Professor Yehuda Bauer, perhaps the world's greatest authority on genocide and the Holocaust. What follows is a brief excerpt from a much longer and very thought provoking interview. The Gaza settler Holocaust denier remark is at the...

April 17, 2006: Israel Has More Than 40 Darfur Refugees – Most Held In Military Prison
Comments: 16 | Categories: Darfur , Israel
Israel is holding more than 40 Sudanese refugees who crossed into Israel from the Sinai and gave themselves up to the IDF, seeking asylum. Most are being held in military prison. 10 were released to the care of kibbutzim until...

April 17, 2006: Darfur
Comments: 4 | Categories: Darfur
Did you mention the Darfur genocide at your seder? If you did, please tell us about it.

April 12, 2006: Remember Darfur At Your Seder
Comments: 0 | Categories: Darfur
Please click on image here to enlarge. Don't forget to remember the ongoing genocide in Darfur at your seder.

April 6, 2006: Edah Wants Darfur At Your Seder
Comments: 2 | Categories: Darfur , MO & Chardal
Click to enlarge Edah wants us to remember the ongoing genocide in Darfur at our seders. I've never been one who is moved by this type of symbolism-for-symbolism's-sake action. But I do think we all should spend a few moments...

March 29, 2006: Elie Wiesel On Darfur
Comments: 3 | Categories: Darfur
Elie Wiesel on Darfur: I am haunted by what I know of Darfur. In Darfur, humankind’s center of suffering today, men, women and children are uprooted, starved, tortured, mutilated, humiliated and massacred -- and the whole civilized world knows it....

March 27, 2006: Rabbi Meets The Hitler Of Our Times
Comments: 0 | Categories: Darfur , Haredim , Jewish Leadership
Nat Hentoff writes in the Village Voice about Mordechai Liebling, a rabbi who met with the head of Sudan's ruling junta and the country's elite while on a mission to end the genocide in Darfur: I have wondered what it...

February 28, 2006: What Should Jews Do? Darfur Genocide Spills Into Chad
Comments: 9 | Categories: Darfur , Haredim , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal
The conflict and resultant genocide in Darfur has now worsened and spread into neighboring Chad. The New York Times reports: ADRÉ, Chad — The chaos in Darfur, the war-ravaged region in Sudan where more than 200,000 civilians have been killed,...

September 28, 2005: American Jewish World Service Calls For Expanded US Role In Darfur
Comments: 0 | Categories: Darfur , Famine , Hessed
American Jewish World Service has launched a call to action on Darfur. The petition, which can be signed here, calls for an expanded US role in ending the genocide. Let's hope it works.

July 15, 2005: Sudan Blog
Comments: 1 | Categories: Blogs , Darfur
Here's an up-to-date blog on the crisis in Sudan – Sudan: The Passion Of The Present.

May 27, 2005: Famine Ravages Southern Sudan
Comments: 4 | Categories: Darfur
Sudanese children eat boiled leaves – their only meal of the day. They'll run out of leaves soon.

May 8, 2005: Not Now, Not Ever – End The Genocide In Darfur
Comments: 11 | Categories: Darfur , Jewish Leadership , MO & Chardal
New York City Rally TODAY! Sunday, May 8th at 4:30pm at Cherry Hill on 72nd Street in Central Park (Click here for a map) Help spread the word: Download, print and distribute this poster!

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