Thinking about Programming: What is Important to You?
Most of my professional life has been spent creating and running programs for B’nai B’rith International, having spent the last 39 years as a member of the professional program...
Tag: Israel
August 15, 2016
Times of Israel EVP Op-Ed: Europe’s Uneven Hand on the Israel-Palestinian Conflict
The Times of Israel ran an op-ed written by B’nai B’rith International Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin on Europe’s tilt toward the Palestinian’s and how...
June 29, 2016
Recognizing Jewish Rescuers 70 years After the Holocaust: Reflections on Yom Hashoah 2016
Photo via Wikimedia CommonsYom Hashoah (Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day) in Israel is not something that can be ignored. All the newspapers and broadcast outlets are dedicated to it. In...
May 19, 2016
With All Their Complexity, Catholic-Jewish Relations Help Show the Way
For more than a year now, the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council document Nostra aetate, on Catholic relations with other faiths, has been celebrated. Though lamentably still unknown...
May 3, 2016
Palestinian Terrorism and its Tragedies
A scene from St. Sgt. Tuvia Yanai Weissman funeral, murdered by a Palestinian terrorist while grocery shopping. The Edith “Pat” Wolfson Endowment was created in 2005 to provide...
March 31, 2016
Who Knew? Ending Hatred As a Means to Forging Peace
U.N. Disengagement Observer Force moving freely through Golan Heights, despite the world body’s repeated condemnation of Israel’s possession of the territory. You wouldn’t know it...
March 23, 2016
Despite leading on Gender Equality Issues, Israel is Predictably Bashed by U.N. Commission on the Status of Women
This week the 60th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is wrapping up in New York. Diplomats and NGO representatives have come from around the world to discuss gender equality and...
March 18, 2016
New Openings In Latin America
Director of Latin America Affairs Eduardo Kohn I, along with B’nai B’rith Latin America Chair Mario Wilhelm, represented B’nai B’rith at the World Jewish Congress (WJC)...
March 18, 2016
Business as Usual at the U.N. Human Rights Council
In an op-ed for The Times of Israel, Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin has returned from the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva and he can report: It’s business...