(Washington, D.C., Dec. 6, 2018)—B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement:  
 
We salute the United States mission to the United Nations, and particularly Ambassador Nikki Haley, for initiating a first-time, explicit U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) repudiation of Hamas, the terrorist group that controls the Gaza Strip, for its culpability in relentless and recently escalated attacks against Israeli civilians from that territory and its reckless exploitation of Palestinians. Although the resolution garnered a plurality of votes, it failed to achieve the two-thirds majority required due to a procedural roadblock. Haley rightly pointed out this roadblock was a clear double standard, as just last week the U.N. General Assembly passed numerous resolutions under the same agenda item attacking Israel with no similar two-thirds majority requirement. Indeed, another resolution — tabled by Ireland — was passed at this same session without any discussion of a need for such a two-thirds majority.
 
The resolution against Hamas was part of ongoing and determined efforts to demand a far more responsible and unbiased U.N. approach to Arab-Israeli issues and is critical to meaningful efforts at actual peacemaking. We commend the 87 countries that supported this manifestly just and common-sense resolution and take note of the 33 countries that declined to support the resolution through their abstention.
 
Despite Hamas’s long history of targeting Israeli civilians with rockets, digging tunnels into Israel and carrying out suicide bombing attacks, this resolution was the first time that the U.N. General Assembly has almost condemned Hamas by name. We are appalled by the numerous ploys the Palestinians and their allies at the U.N. have used to sink this important resolution. The double-standard that was ultimately used to deny a plurality of the U.N. General Assembly passage of this critical resolution clearly shows that anti-Semitism continues to plague the world body. All countries that voted in favor of requiring a two-thirds majority are as complicit in this stain on the U.N.’s reputation as those who ultimately voted against this resolution.
 
The U.N. was founded to work toward global peace and security. Until its member states are able to recognize that the terrorism employed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and other groups in the region is a key factor holding back any attempt at a peaceful resolution of the conflict, the U.N. will continue to wallow in its own irrelevance.
 
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​(Jerusalem, Dec. 5, 2018)— The B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem and the Committee to Recognize the Heroism of Jews who Rescued Fellow Jews During the Holocaust announced during the Chanukah holiday that they will posthumously honor with their Jewish Rescuers Citation 18 Jewish heroes who risked their own lives to rescue fellow Jews. Seventeen of the honorees are leaders of the Comité de Défence des Juifs en Belgique (CDJ), the joint Jewish/non-Jewish Jewish Defense Committee in Belgium: Abusz Werber, Chaim Perelman, Maurice Heiber, Benjamin Nykerk, Ghert Jospa, Yvonne Jospa, Esta Heiber, Sophie Werber, Ela Perelman, Ida Sterno, Abraham Monastir, Joseph Sterngold, Pauline Trocki, George Livchitz, Leopold Flam, Erna Stern and Israel Tabakman.

The CDJ was established by five disparate Jewish organizations and one non-Jewish organization following the first deportations from Antwerp and Brussels by the Nazis in August 1942. Until then, the different organizations had undertaken independent rescue operations. It operated as an underground resistance group with the purpose of helping Jews – especially children – evade deportation through various illegal methods, mainly hiding, but also the provision of false credentials.

Six of the eight founding members were eventually arrested and deported, and only two of them survived. The Committee was the single largest Jewish clandestine organization in wartime Europe, with 768 activists. It is credited with ensuring the survival of 3,000 Jewish children and as many as 10,000 adults. Some 55 percent of Belgium’s prewar Jewish population of 66,000 (90 percent of them non-citizens) survived the war due to staying hidden, the actions of the committee and the heroism of Belgian non-Jewish rescuers, many of whom have been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. CDJ assumed the task of conveying the children to new homes and keeping tabs on how they were cared for. This task necessitated a great deal of travel and was therefore the province of non-Jewish women members, who were the least likely to raise the suspicion of the Germans and their Belgian collaborators.

The eighteenth rescuer to be honored with the Jewish Rescuers Citation is Mania Zeidman, who endangered herself to rescue fellow Jews while working in the Ober Altstadt Concentration Camp infirmary in Germany. Zeidman allowed recovering women to remain in the infirmary so that they would not have to face the hardship of work outside that would have surely lead to their death in the harsh conditions. By these actions she endangered herself, earning the wrath of sadistic doctors who beat her often.

More than 200 Jewish rescuers from 14 countries – now including Belgium – ­ have been recognized by the Jewish Rescuers Citation since its inception in 2011 for their demonstration of human and Jewish solidarity, which they demonstrated by endangering their lives to rescue others.

For more information about the Jewish Rescuers Citation, please contact Alan Schneider, director, B’nai B’rith World Center—Jerusalem 02-6251743.

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(Washington, D.C., Dec. 4, 2018)--When a small group of immigrants founded B’nai B’rith in mid-19th century New York, they could not have known that their organization would one day have thousands of members around the world. B’nai B’rith was created in a saloon by German-speaking Jews, just three years after the arrival of the first ordained rabbi in New York. Despite the divided nature of the New York Jewish community, marked by rivalries between different immigrant groups, B’nai B’rith always aimed to be inclusive. Kenneth Ackerman explores the organization’s origins in his feature, “How an Immigrant Saloon of 1840s New York Gave Birth to B’nai B’rith.”
 
Although Jews are not commonly associated with the Wild West, many Jewish pioneers thrived in mining boomtowns. There were Jewish politicians, merchants, landowners and lawmen. Cheryl Kempler explores this unique time in Jewish history, where there was so little overt anti-Semitism that some Jews joined gentile organizations, while others founded B’nai B’rith lodges.
 
In “A Fresh Look at Tu B’Shevat,” Paula Shoyer delves into the changing significance of the holiday, which has historically been linked to Zionism. Now, Tu B’Shevat is taking on added significance as a day to promote environmentalism and connection to the Earth. Tu B’Shevat Seders, long held only by Sephardic Jews, have exploded in popularity amongst Jews of all types. There are even multiple Tu B’Shevat Haggadahs available online.
 
B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman details his priorities for the coming year, including the creation of a Mental Health Action group to bolster our support for seniors and continuing to advocate for Israel at the United Nations. The organization will also launch the B’nai B’rith Barristers program that will provide opportunities for lawyers to network.
 
B’nai B’rith International CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin’s column focuses on the connection throughout history between the Greek and Jewish communities, starting with the possibility that ancient Sparta had contact with the people of Israel in the third century B.C.E. As Israel’s relationship with the country has improved, B’nai B’rith organized two high-level leadership missions to Greece, Cyprus and Israel in conjunction with two Greek-American organizations. B’nai B’rith Greece also hosted a conference exploring the link between Sparta and Israel.
 
Did you know Iceland has a tiny Jewish community? In “A Mostly Warm Reception for Jews in Sub-Arctic Iceland,” Jennifer Lovy explores Jewish life in the island nation. Many Jews there are transplants from the United States or Europe, but the country now has a permanent rabbi and Chabad center.
 
Maayan Hoffman writes about the gourmet food scene in the Galilee, a major agricultural hub in the State of Israel. Israel Initiative 2020, a non-governmental organization working to burnish Israel’s reputation as an economically vibrant “Start-Up Nation,” is attempting to revitalize the region by making it a center of food- and agri-tech. The Galilee’s unique climate makes it possible for 70 percent of all types of crops to grow there.
 
To read these stories and more, click here.
 
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(Washington, D.C., Dec. 3, 2018)—B’nai B’rith International President Charles O. Kaufman and CEO Daniel S. Mariaschin have issued the following statement:   
 
B’nai B’rith International welcomes the European Union’s (EU) indication that it may deny future support to an annual United Nations General Assembly resolution on Jerusalem if it continues to refer to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s single holiest site, only by its Arabic, Islamic name.
 
Every year, coinciding with the U.N.’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, U.N. member states vote on multiple anti-Israel resolutions. Among other objectionable content, some of the resolutions effectively deny the historical Jewish connection to foremost holy sites in Jerusalem. This year, as in the past, many European states supported several of these motions.
 
In a statement at the General Assembly, the EU warned that, beginning next year, it would no longer tolerate resolutions referring to the Temple Mount solely as al-Haram al-Sharif, the site’s Muslim name. The statement said, “The EU stresses the need for language on the holy sites of Jerusalem to reflect the importance and historical significance of the holy sites for the three monotheistic religions, and to respect religious and cultural sensitivities.”
 
All biased, overtly politicized resolutions at the United Nations deserve to be rejected on their merits, but the EU’s admonition is an important step in the right direction. It must be followed through upon and reiterated, not only by European governments but by all responsible countries, also within other international bodies such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which Palestinians have increasingly exploited to deny Jews’ connection to, and rights in, their ancestral homeland and its capital. This whitewashing of historical truth is a profound affront to Jews, Christians and all people of goodwill, and an added impediment to reconciliation and coexistence.
 
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In keeping with the automatic majority enjoyed at the world body by Arab, Muslim and aligned states, the United Nations General Assembly has again repeated an annual ritual of adopting multiple resolutions and reports blindly reflecting only Palestinians' narrative of their ongoing conflict with Israel. B'nai B'rith condemns those member states, oblivious to grave Palestinian misdeeds and to the most basic rights of Israelis, that accepted these texts replete with glaring falsehoods, omissions and political invective.

The resolutions mimic Palestinian rhetoric inimical to peace and coexistence – referring to the creation of Israel as "the Nakba" (or "Catastrophe"), referencing alleged "acts of terror" by individual Israelis but never by Palestinian jihadist groups, calling for a "contiguous" state of Palestine that would by definition end the contiguity of Israel, and decrying the detention of violent Palestinian extremists but not the continuing hostage-taking by Hamas terrorists of Israeli civilians and service-members. Yet again, the resolutions commit the outrage of repeatedly referring to the holiest site in Judaism, Jerusalem's Temple Mount, by its Islamic name alone, and even demand the transfer of the strategically vital Golan Heights, a haven of stability and intercommunal coexistence under Israeli sovereignty, to the brutal regime of Syria's Bashar al-Assad.

The decisions also perpetuate permanent bureaucratic bodies, including the Division for Palestinian Rights, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Special Information Programme on the Question of Palestine, exclusively dedicated – at the annual cost of millions of dollars to global taxpayers, and with the imprimatur of the U.N. – to advancing Palestinian political propaganda and objectives worldwide.

B'nai B'rith strongly commends the United States, Australia, Canada, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Nauru, along with Israel, for their brave and principled opposition to all of these motions, and also takes note of a substantial number of member states that declined to support the resolutions, through abstention, and those that opposed individual motions.

The predictable adoption of the batch of anti-Israel texts came on a day formally testifying to systemic U.N. prejudice against the world's only Jewish state and the Middle East's only democracy: the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Palestinians alone enjoy exceptional privileges and expressions of automatic support at the world body, even though the occasion marks the day in 1947 when the General Assembly endorsed Jewish statehood in Israel – a vision rejected by Palestinian and other extremists then and still today.

The day itself was observed with a customary litany of one-sided and often defamatory statements by the representatives of authoritarian governments hostile to Israel, and a keynote U.N. speaker on the eve of the General Assembly proceedings. CNN personality and Temple University instructor Marc Lamont Hill, made blatant his bigoted position by calling for the effective erasure of Israel, justifying all Palestinian "resistance" tactics and endorsing economic pressure campaigns that single out Israel for targeting. B'nai B'rith called yesterday for Hill's immediate dismissal by his employers, after which CNN rightly ended its relationship with Hill.

Until U.N. bodies demonstrate an unvarnished awareness of actual realities in the Middle East, and genuine commitment to equality and to fairness, they will be in no position to contribute to peace in the region – or to improve the circumstances of Israelis and Palestinians alike.  
 
B’nai B’rith strongly urges member states to be mindful of this when voting next week on a U.S.-sponsored resolution set to provide for critical General Assembly condemnation, for the first time, of Hamas, the Palestinian jihadist group that controls the Gaza Strip and vows Israel’s destruction.

B’nai B’rith International has advocated for global Jewry and championed the cause of human rights since 1843. B’nai B’rith is recognized as a vital voice in promoting Jewish unity and continuity, a staunch defender of the State of Israel, a tireless advocate on behalf of senior citizens and a leader in disaster relief. With a presence around the world, we are the Global Voice of the Jewish Community. Visit www.bnaibrith.org
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(Washington, D.C., Nov. 29, 2018)--B’nai B’rith International President Charles Kaufman and CEO Daniel Mariaschin sent a letter to the CEO of short-term property rental company Airbnb denouncing the company’s decision to delist Israeli properties in the West Bank and calling on Airbnb to reverse its decision immediately. In the letter, Kaufman and Mariaschin called the move the “latest attempt by Israel’s adversaries to isolate the Jewish state and undermine its standing in the international community.”

In a release announcing the move, Airbnb said its decision was made in the context of an all-encompassing “framework for evaluating how [Airbnb] should treat listings in occupied territories.” However, Airbnb has not applied this framework to any country other than Israel.

Kaufman and Mariaschin point out that Airbnb’s press release “concedes that U.S. law permits companies like Airbnb to engage in business in these territories.” The decision could not have been motivated by legal concerns.

According to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)’s working definition of anti-Semitism, “manifestations might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity.” By singling out Israel from the hundreds of countries that Airbnb has listings in, the company is doing just that. ​

B’nai B’rith International has advocated for global Jewry and championed the cause of human rights since 1843. B’nai B’rith is recognized as a vital voice in promoting Jewish unity and continuity, a staunch defender of the State of Israel, a tireless advocate on behalf of senior citizens and a leader in disaster relief. With a presence around the world, we are the Global Voice of the Jewish Community. Visit www.bnaibrith.org

B’nai B’rith Urges Dismissal of Marc Lamont Hill Over Call to Erase Israel

(Washington, D.C., Nov. 28, 2018)--B’nai B’rith International calls for the immediate dismissal of CNN commentator and Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill over explicitly anti-Semitic statements he has made as featured speaker at the primary United Nations event marking the body’s yearly International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.

Coming in the aftermath of CNN’s release of a survey showing the persistence of global anti-Semitism—whose most lethal strain is now the demonization and delegitimization of the world’s only Jewish state—Hill endorsed the anti-Jewish discrimination of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and justified all forms of Palestinian “resistance,” which largely refers to terrorism against Israeli civilians. Most shockingly, he echoed the jihadist aspiration of erasing Israel completely, asserting that justice requires “a free Palestine from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea.”

Ironically, today’s Palestinian solidarity event marks the day in 1947 on which the U.N. General Assembly endorsed the right of Jews to a homeland in Israel—a right that continues to be rejected by Middle East extremists.

Hill has regularly engaged in anti-Semitic rhetoric at events hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), a radical activist group that has advocated the destruction of Israel. SJP actively promotes support for terrorists, including Rasmea Odeh, who participated in a grocery store bombing that killed two students in Israel, and Ahmed Manasara, who indiscriminately stabbed Israeli civilians on a street in Jerusalem and told police officers he “went there to stab Jews.”

Hill has also been an open proponent of the BDS campaign, whose founding was motivated by a desire to isolate, harm and ultimately eradicate Israel by promoting economic warfare against it. 

Additionally, he has had a longstanding relationship with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a foremost purveyor of modern anti-Semitism, who has called Judaism a “gutter religion” and Jews “satanic.” In 2016, Hill posted online a picture of himself smiling with Farrakhan, adding the caption, “Been blessed to spend the last day with Minister Louis Farrakhan. An amazing time of learning, listening, laughing, and even head nodding to music. God is Great.” Last month, when challenged on his association with Farrakhan after the latter compared Jews to termites, Hill tweeted: “Although I disagree with the Minister on those important issues, I will not allow that to be an excuse for allowing dishonest media or poorly intentioned observers to create unnecessary division. I will not be told who to speak to, sit with, or engage.”  

Hill’s continued career at CNN, and as a professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University in Philadelphia, is especially ironic in light of the network’s recent survey highlighting widespread anti-Semitism in Europe. The poll revealed that many Europeans continue to believe in anti-Semitic tropes. Over a quarter of those surveyed said they think Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly one in four said that Jews have too much involvement in armed conflicts and wars worldwide. The survey also revealed a troubling lack of knowledge surrounding the events of the Holocaust. Although the Nazi genocide resulted in the murder of six million Jews on European soil, a third of the survey’s respondents said they knew little or nothing about the Holocaust. Nearly a third blamed Israel’s actions for anti-Semitism in their countries, and 18% blamed the behavior of Jews in general.

It is intolerable that Hill, who describes himself as “one of the leading intellectual voices in the country,” has enjoyed important platforms to spread his bigoted views. His association with anti-Semitic, racist and homophobic groups and figures prevents him from speaking with any moral authority on peace and justice, particularly to a global television audience and to students. He must be swiftly repudiated and replaced by CNN and by Temple University. ​

B’nai B’rith International has advocated for global Jewry and championed the cause of human rights since 1843. B’nai B’rith is recognized as a vital voice in promoting Jewish unity and continuity, a staunch defender of the State of Israel, a tireless advocate on behalf of senior citizens and a leader in disaster relief. With a presence around the world, we are the Global Voice of the Jewish Community. Visit www.bnaibrith.org

(Jerusalem, Nov. 27, 2018)-- B'nai B'rith World Center-Jerusalem conducted a six-day mission to Israel last week with 12 members of Congress from Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the first of its kind undertaken by B’nai B’rith.

B’nai B’rith brought the congressmen to Israel to encounter first-hand the security and political challenges facing the country, its strong democratic institutions and its culture, history, technological innovation and demographic diversity.

The mission kicked off with a meeting with Reuven Azar, head of the Foreign Policy Department, National Security Council and foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The delegation conferred with Shmulik Bass, director for Latin America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and met with Knesset member Sharren Haskel (Likud), chair of the Israel-Chile Parliamentary Friendship Group, at the Knesset.

The group was also briefed by Knesset Member Haim Jelin (Yesh Atid), chair of the Israel-Argentina Parliamentary Friendship Group, near his home at the Israel-Gaza border and received strategic briefings near Israel's borders with Syria and Lebanon.

In Jerusalem, they visited the Holy Sepulchre, Yad Vashem, the Israel Museum and the Western Wall. Uruguayan-Israeli journalist Jana Beris (who is also known by her maiden name, Jerozolimski) and educator-guide Gabriel Ben Tasgal discussed current affairs with the group, including the peace plans since the Oslo Accords and the situation between Israel and Palestinians since 1948.

Other highlights of the itinerary included visits to Bethlehem, the Galilee, the Jordan River and the Golan Heights. The group was introduced to Israeli high-tech at OrCam Technologies and Taglit innovation center.​

The delegation was assembled in close cooperation with B’nai B’rith Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. B'nai B'rith World Center-Jerusalem Director Alan Schneider, B'nai B'rith Director for Latin America Eduardo Kohn and B’nai B’rith Chile Director Jorge Zeballos accompanied the mission.
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(Jerusalem, Nov. 26, 2018)--Noted historian Sir Simon Schama will deliver the B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem 'Jerusalem Address' entitled "Jewish Arguments Then and Now" on Dec.13. The event will be led by B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem Chairman Haim V. Katz and concluding remarks will be made by Charles O. Kaufman, president of B'nai B'rith International. Yoel Rappel, historian, author and editor of Schama's acclaimed "The Story of the Jews" in Hebrew will present a literary introduction of his work.

Schama is university professor of art history and history at Columbia University, a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature and contributing editor at the Financial Times.

The event will take place on Thursday, Dec. 13, at 7:30 p.m. at Konrad Adenauer Conference Center, Mishkenot Sh'ananim, Jerusalem. The media are invited.

The ‘Jerusalem Address’ was established by the B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem in 1985 as its most prestigious forum for addressing fundamental challenges facing Israel and the Jewish people. It has consistently hosted some of the most outstanding minds of our times, including Abba Eban, Professor George Steiner, Professor Shlomo Avineri, Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits, Bernard-Henri Levy, Professor Bernard Lewis, Ambassador Max M. Kampelman, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Melanie Phillips  and Howard Jacobson.
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Schama is the author of 18 books, which have been translated into 16 languages, and is the writer-presenter of 50 documentaries on art, history and literature for BBC2 and PBS. He was art critic for the New Yorker in the 1990s and won a National Magazine Award for his art criticism in 1996, published as “Hang-Ups, Essays on Painting (Mostly).” His film on Bernini from the “Power of Art” series won an Emmy and his series “A History of Britain and The American Future. A History” won Broadcast Critics Guild awards. His art history work also includes “Rembrandt's Eyes,” (1999) “The Power of Art,”(2006) and “The Face of Britain.” (2015)
 
He has published a work of fiction, “Dead Certainties: (Unwarranted Speculations)” and his work for the theater  includes the stage adaptation of “Rough Crossings” (with Caryl Phillips) for Headlong Theatre,  and in 2011, a short play for Headlong's site-specific production about 9/11, Decade.
 
 Schama won the NCR nonfiction prize for “Citizens. A Chronicle of the French Revolution,” the WH Smith Literary Award for “Landscape and Memory,” and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States for “Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution.”
 
His latest book, “The Story of the Jews Volume 2: Belonging”was short-listed for the Baillie-Gifford Prize and was among The Economist Magazine's  Best Books of 2017. In 2011, he received the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement and in 2015 the Premio Antonelli Feltrinelli in historical sciences from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome .
 
He delivered the Andrew W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery in Washington D.C. in 2006 entitled "Really Old Masters: Infirmity and Reinvention," the Anthony Hecht Lectures in the humanities at Bard College on memory in contemporary art and most recently, the Jerusalem Lectures for the Israel Historical Society. He curated the Government Art Collection exhibition "Travelling Light" at the Whitechapel Gallery and "The Face of Britain" exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in 2015, at the time of a television series and book on British portraiture.  He has collaborated with Anselm Kiefer, John Virtue, Cecile B. Evans and Damien Hirst on exhibitions and catalogue essays. His latest work for the BBC/PBS was a series on world art history, “Civilisations,” broadcasted in the spring of 2018. In November 2017 he delivered a lecture entitled "The Anglo-Jewish Community and the Balfour Declaration" at a Knesset conference organized by the B'nai B'rith World Center-Jerusalem on behalf of the Balfour Centenary Committee entitled "Centenary of the Balfour Declaration: Historical Context, Contemporary Implications."
 
To register, please write to worldcenter@012.net.il or call +972-2-6253743
 
B’nai B’rith International has advocated for global Jewry and championed the cause of human rights since 1843. B’nai B’rith is recognized as a vital voice in promoting Jewish unity and continuity, a staunch defender of the State of Israel, a tireless advocate on behalf of senior citizens and a leader in disaster relief. With a presence around the world, we are the Global Voice of the Jewish Community. Visit www.bnaibrith.org