issue becomes a jewish issue, and what his response to the jewish issue are the secular issue, and what is the response to that activism more dialogue? >> one example is marriage equality, which i don't think we started in the religious community, a weak.a jc rc it is important to bring to bear the religious voices due to the way that the debate is constructed. there is a remarkable change in attitude about marriage equality. it was only 10 to 15 years ago where the attitude was much more fixed and often negative about it. we got this was a case where we could truly provide value added by bringing in the voice of the view jewish community. i want to be careful and not sing a religious voice, and we have conservative and orthodox ideas on marriage, but what we were looking at was the specific question of what became the central civil rights issue of our time. once it was clear we were dealing with the central civil rights issue of our time, we had to weigh in as a community. >> a beautiful example, and we would come back with this wonderful examination with our conversation with doug kah

so 99% of people who are leading the vbs movement want cause harm to the jewish state and the jewish people. that is why kyle those jews who mistakenly, and misguidedly join them, i call the moral idiots. we have a long tradition of them among our people but we have a new tradition over the last 68 years. the stories of jews siding with the enemies of the jewish people, handful of jews siding with our enemies is an old story. the new story is that there is a sovereign jewish state ready to defend the jews on the battlefield and to defend the jewish people on the course of public opinion. thank thank you. thank you very much. [applause]. >> ladies and gentlemen to make a special presentation, please welcome the ceo, jonathan green black. [applause]. >> good afternoon. first of all before i get started and we begin the presentation, can i just remarked upon what a pleasure it was to have a master drummer here today. thank you for clear and forceful conversation. i think his description of anti- saying this and anti-semitism and the linkage between the two is something we should take to

that the defamation of the jewish people preceded the birth of the jewish state. the adl opened its first office in 1913 a year before the outbreak of world war i. two decades before the rise of before the35 years birth of israel. the adl was founded to stop the defamation of the jews and its people in this room know very well the defamation of the jews was not unique to the 20th century. it is a problem that has been unique for more than 20 centuries. it has plagued backwards and progressive societies. it has transcended time and space, faith and coulters. i've mentioned this banal point because too many have forgotten it. too many believe today the jewish state is because of the defamation of the jewish people. that israel is the cause of anti-semitism across the world. they believe the shameful questioning of a student at ucla or the statements of politicians in london, or the murderous actions of killers in paris are sometimes a byproduct of israel's policy. israelome today believe is the cause of anti-semitism, the adl first opened its doors in 1913 some beli

four, anti-jewish terror. and finally, the one that i think is the most sophisticated, -- maybe the most dangerous what i would call the laundry or masking of anti-semitism under universal public values. i hope then to not leave it in an analytical framework, but to suggest some initiatives that we may take as a group of scholars to both not only better understand, but to better address and redress this new anti-summit is some. -- anti-semitism. let me begin with the first metric, what i would call genocidal anti-semitism. this is not a term that i use lightly or easily. it is a term that i am picking right out of the genocide conventions prohibition against the direct and public incitement to genocide. as the supreme court of canada ase in thea major c matter of upholding the constitutionality of our anti-hate legislation. the court said that the holocaust did not begin in the gas chambers, it began with words. judgment, where a rwandan had come to canada in 1992 and sought refugee status in canada. day, the

they did not let jewish people without a yellow star. they couldn't keep non-jewish help. became thathe other we were not allowed to even go to the street without that yellow star. in may the 4th, transylvania was occupied on march. march, 1940. 1940. the lasthungary was country that the germans occupied from the whole europe. so, when they did all these things to us that they did not let us out, humiliation, even a gypsy said, i am what i am, but i am not a jew. so, we were totally humiliated. and that -- to me, that is even worse than suffering -- the humiliation. >> anna, after the hunt gary and stood all these terrible things to you. after the hungarians did all these terrible things to you. they took away your business. how did your family managed to -- ? ms. grosz: my father took care of that before pat meehan-- we had flowers. we had plants. we had brandy what we sold, because we have a brandy machine, a still, they called it. we sold that. we lived from that. it was enough to help other people. so, it came the day, may the fourth, and family by family ,they took al

you can also see it in how the old hatred of the jewish people has become a new hatred of the jewishthe slanderer's depiction of israel as a perpetrator of genocide once again casts the jews as the enemy of mine kind -- mankind. these lies are believed not just by the ignorant, but also by the educated. as statements by the swedish foreign minister and facebook posts of british parliamentarian s can attest -- a former mayor of london even declared hitler supporter of zionists. only in the thickest of minds can a monster who was committed to the strangers -- the return of anti-semitism as a force in the world should surprise no one. sadly, the aberration just a few decades after the holocaust when anti-semitism was taboo. while this age old hatred has returned, this time, things are different. this time, the jewish people are no longer a stateless and powerless people. the founders of zionism hoped that the establishment of israel would end anti-semitism. they believe that the semitism persisted in the modern world because the jews were a minority everywhere and a majority nowhere. th

namely, that the defamation of the jewish people preceded the birth of the jewish state.break of world war i, two decades before the rise of hitler, and some 35 years before the birth of israel. the adl was founded to stop the defamation of the jews, and asked people in this room know very well, the decimation of the jews was not a problem unique to the 20th century. it's a problem that has been unique for more than 20 centuries. it has played both backwards and progressive societies, it has transcended time and space, face and cultures. and i mentioned a seemingly but i'll point because too many have forgotten it. too many believe that today the jewish state is the cause of the decimation of the jewish people. that israel is the cause of the spread of anti-semitism across the world. they believe the shameful question as a student at ucla or the outrageous statements of politicians in london, or the murderous actions of killers in paris are somehow a byproduct of israel's policies. the irony, ladies and gentlemen, is that while some did they believe that israel is the cau

they did not let jewish people out without the yellow star. they could not keep non-jewish help. it became a we were not even allowed to go to the street without that yellow star. on may 4, transylvania was occupied under a march. 1940. anna: in 1944, hungry was the last country the germans occupied from europe. in 1940. so, when they did all the things to us, i said i am what i am but i am not a jew. i even a gypsy said i am what am but i am not a jew. so we were totally humiliated. it was even worse than suffering, the humiliation. >> after the hungarians did these terrible things, they took away your family business. >> they took away everything. >> how did your family -- you had a lot of mouths to feed. how did her family managed -- anna: my father took care of that. we had flour, we had bread. we had brandy we sold. we had a brandy machine. a still, they called it. we sold it. it was enough to help even other people. it came the day, may the fourth and family by family they took all of us into the synagogue and told we could take food with us for this. >> can i go back and a

even on the both jewish, he is jewish ethnically, i am jewish religiously and being jewish doesn't mean anything to him and i don't hold that against him. you are not obligated in my opinion to affirm what you were born into, not at all, it is america, a free country, but i do affirm judaism very deeply whereas for him it is a nonissue and that is fine. that doesn't affect me one way or the other. i would say his views disturbed me tremendously but not the fact, a famous left-wing jewish historian called even non-jewish jews, that is not an insult. there is a book called the non-jewish jew, he is describing himself. it is not an insult but that is what he is. i am a jewish jew, he is a non-jewish jew, we don't have >> host: gaye -- >> caller: and i could make a huge list. >> host: gaye, before we let you go, before we let you go, here are the ten commandments very quickly, and which of these do you think you live by? i am the lord, your god, you will have no other gods before me, do not take the lord's name in vain, remember the sabbath, remember the sabbath. honor your mother and fathe

were in the whole little town where lived 50 jewish people, jewish families. they took us to see that and we stayed there for about two or three days, and in that synagogue, the children and the old people sleeping on the floor, it was terrible. and we did not know why and what was going to happen after that. they put us in carriages. they had to carry us about 37 kilometers from our homes. only jewish people who lived there, they took the houses from to live there.le they did not stay too long. then they said, take food for four days with you. and we still did not know what happened. us because it to came only that we did not know what happened before in the war. so, in the ghetto, we stayed there for about -- sleeping on the floor, children, mostly children and old women. the men were not there. days, they took -- i don't know how many people. they took them to the place -- train station. there.t them then to our family, i was the 92nd. we did not know, where is my mother, where is my sister, because they pushed us in. to go out, they did a dance. from time

even on the jewish, he is jewish ethnically, i am jewish religiously. being jewish doesn't mean anything to him. i don't hold. i don't hold that against them. you're not obligated in my born opinion to affirm what you were, born into, not at all, it's america, the free country, it's a free country, but i do affirm with judaism very deeply, whereas for him it's a nonissue, and that's fine. that does not affect me one way or the other. i would say that his views disturbed me tremendously come up but not the fact that he is a famous left-wing jewish historian, he is a non-jewish, jew., jew. and that's not an insult, there. is a book called the non-jewishe jew and he's describing himself, it's not an insult, but that'ss what he is, i'm a jewish i'm a jewish jew, he's a non-jewish true, so we do not much in common.av >> host: are you a conservative, and if so, are you a purist when it comes to being a conservative. >> guest: i'm never appears because i always believe that something is better than nothing. i'm not a purist at all, but i am a conservative. iro

of the jewish board. thanks for being with us today. >> thanks for having me. >> tell us the mission of the jewish board. >> sure, well, we're the largest human services agency in new york city. we work with kids and adults, all backgrounds, all neighborhoods, who struggle with mental health issues, who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, or are in families where there's abuse or neglect, where there's domestic violence, where kids have been abused or neglected. and with all these people, we help them get back on their feet, recover, and live a full and rich life. >> and you help -- i mean, we that's an awful lot of people. it costs a lot of money to do that. now, you just recently got a nice infusion, a donation, from -- we say fegs for short, that's -- i always forget the -- excuse me, i have to look down at it -- federation employment and guidance services gave you quite the donation of late. how does that help you in terms of your bottom line? >> yeah, well, actually, they didn't give it

i'm a jewish jew, he's a non-jewish jew with. so we don't have much in common. >> host: are you a conservative, and if so, are you a, are you a purist when it comes to being a conservative? >> guest: well, i'm never a purist because i always believe that something is better than nothing. i am not a purist at all. but i am a conservative. ironically, the deepest of deepest truths is that i am the same liberal i was when i grew up in brooklyn as a jew and went to columbia which is, you know, almost definitionally liberal. i can't think of almost anything i differed with john f. kennedy on. in fact, i have a test. see, liberalism has been taken over by conservatives. the name has been taken over by the left. the content has been taken over by the right. every liberal i know is a conservative. leftists are not liberals. liberals were daniel patrick moynihan, the senator from new york state, senator henry jackson, scoop jackson, of washington state, john f. kennedy. here is a test. all your listeners, all your viewers should take john

i would say even on the both jewish, we don't -- he is jewish ethnicically, i'm jewish religiously. and being jewish doesn't mean anything to him, and i don't hold that against him. you're not obligated, in my opinion, to affirm what you were born into. not at all. it's america. it's a free country. but i do affirm judaism very deeply whereas for him it's a non-issue. and that's fine. that doesn't, that doesn'tit affect me one way or the other. i would say that his views disturb me tremendously but not the fact that he is what a famous left-wing jewish historian called, he's a northern-jewish jew x. that's not an insult. there is a book called the non-jewish jew, and he's describing himself.. it's not an insult, but that's what hes. so we don't have much in common. >> host: are you a conservative, and if so, are you a, are you a purist when it comes to being a conservative? >> guest: well, i'm never a purist because i always believe that something is better than nothing. i am not a purist at all, but i am a conservative. ironically, the deepest of deepest truths is that i am the sam

but also our survival and regeneration as a jewish people.e present this award to you in tribute to your courage, your moral leadership, for your work in congress, for your evotion to the ongoing struggle for justice in this country. you represent one of the central lessons of the united states holocaust memorial museum. never to forget, never to be indifferent to other people's suffering. we honor you, congressman lewis . and we also thank you. and the other leaders of the civil rights movement for the inspiration you brought to america and for the gift that movement brought to american jews. you and your fellow civil rights leaders inspired so many jews, young and old, to take part with you in sit-ins, as freedom riders, and the mississippi freedom summer, and the march in washington, in selma, cicero, memphis, and the poor people march. you welcomed our participation in the movement and many young jews rediscovered with pride the jewish prophetic tradition. the civil rights movement arose just a few years after the end of the war. and we j

in particular about mental illness in the jewish community. one in five american families has a loved one who has been diagnosed with mental illness. because of that statistic, of course, it means that nearly every single one of us across the country has a loved one who has a diagnosed mental illness. there are many, many ways in which this issue has responded to, in particular in the faith community, the national association for mental illness and the california association of mental illness have faith based initiatives. there are other synagogues and other churches and other faith based groups who deal with this issue in their own particular way. this morning, we would like to invite you into this serious and important conversation with members of congregation. in particular, its senior rabbi and joann foreman who is the mental health initiative program coordinator of congregation. thank you so much, rabbi and joann for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> why don't we jump in and ask you, why do you think this issue is so important to

here the burden of proof should not be placed on the jewish state or jewish people to explain why the anti-semitics are wrong, and rather to explain why they are right. they must be asked the simple question, by what principle has israel been singled out, alone among the nations of the world for boycott, divestment and sanctions? believe me, there is no principle other than anti-semiticism. that is why here the answer is not to inform the uninformed but rather to delegitimize the delegitimizers. ladies and gentlemen, one of the biggest fallacies, when it comes to anti-semitics, is to believe that it's a disease that information and education alone can eradicate. those who believe this should learn the history of the jewish people, and they should learn that it has inflicted both the ignorant and the educated, and they should learn the legacy of the ancient hatred is not only in the pitchforks and clubs of the pragues, but also in the poison minds and pens of the voltars, and they should read a book called "the devil and the jews," and it was published in 1940 on the eve of the holocau

but you can also see it in how the old hatred of the jewish people has become a new hatred of the jewishcasts the jews as the enemy of mankind. and once again these lies are believed not just by the ignorant, but also by the educated. as statements by the swedish foreign minister and facebook post of british parliamentarians can attest. just last week a former mayor of london, even declared hitler a supporter of zionism. only in the sickest of mines can a monster who is dedicated to annihilating the jews be declared a friend of the national movement that was established to save the jews. ladies and gentlemen, the painful truth is that the return of anti-semitism as a force in the world should surprise no one. it is simply a return to the historic nor. sadly the aberration was a few decades after the holocaust and anti-semitism was taboo. but while this age old hatred has returned, this time things are different. this time the jewish people are no longer a stateless and powerless people. the founders of zionism hope that the establishment of israel would end anti-semitism. they believed t

but also, our survival and jewishation of -- as the people. we present this award to you in tribute to your courage, your moral leadership, your work in congress. for your devotion to the ongoing struggle for justice in this country. you represent one of the central lessons of the united states holocaust memorial museum. never to beget, indifferent. two other people suffering. lewis.r you congressman and we also thank you. and the other leaders from the civil rights movement for the duration you brought to america. -- the inspiration you brought to america. you and your fellow civil rights leaders inspired so many jews young, and all to take heart in situ incidence -- ins. you welcomed our participation in the movement and many young jews rediscovered with pride the jewish prophetic tradition. the civil rights movement arose just a few years after the end of the war. barelyjews were just starting to recover from the horrors of hitler. father, rabbi abraham joshua has shown, came to this country as a refugee from nazi europe. his mother and thr

which brings me to a fourth metric, the phenomenon of anti-jewish terror, underpinned by anti-jewish ncitement, and the glorification of that terrorism and even the rewarding of that terrorism by both hamas and other authorities. let me say, the 21st century also began on rosh hashanah in october 2000 with the worst anti-jewish terrorism -- the orst terrorism, we have in fact ever witnessed over a period of time. in the first two years, from the onslaught of what was called the second -- a sanitizing term, because the notion is, some kind of resistance to an occupation. it comes with a validating expression. what it really was was the worst kind of terrorism that we have witnessed in contemporary history. some 600 jews were murdered in the first two years of that. that is equivalent to a half a ozen 9/11's. during the same time, there was a series of major attacks that never took place because the attempt to bomb the israeli towers, which could have been a 9/11 in that particular sense, the attempt to poison, i could go on. what i am saying is, you had specific, anti-jewish terror, w

jewish or otherwise. in that sense, we cannot compromise what we say or what we do on the alters of political correctness because at the end of the day, if you indulge political correctness too much, you end up becoming a bystander. and my whole plea today is for us not to be bystanders, but to be interveneants in that struggle for justice, and as my mother would say in the best way, to do it is to struggle against injustice and remember that bold jewish proverb which should apply to us all. when i say that jews are indigenous and aboriginal people, i'm not saying abe. s aren't, they're also aboriginal people. that's part of the difficulty of the struggle and why we'll have to frame an approach to it in terms of the principles of least injustice. that for another time, but the thing to remember always, and the epigram i always remember that at the end of the day, truth and justice will prevail. we are involved in a just struggle. we're not involved only on behalf of jews or israelis or only against anti-s

this was from 1946, 1947, the last joint palestinian jewish house. we had a very good relationship with the arabs. and then the war started in 1947. >> all the arabs were pushed out. >> they were pushed out. >> they feel guilty that you are living here? >> no, no. >> you don't feel guilty that this is a home that belongs to a palestinian family and they got pushed out, and you are the recipient, the beneficiary of the blood and sweat and tears. >> i feel that the israeli government owes them, because the israeli government is the one who made this law about people who are not here. and the question is if people are ready to take compensation instead of coming back. >> the next day david and i separated so that i could go alone into gaza. along with the west bank, gaza is one of the two areas that have been taken by israel in 1967 and has been an occupied territory ever since. >> when i was in gaza david attended an israeli right wing rally in jerusalem. a large movement of religious israelis believe that rather than returning this land, it should be

first of all, are you a jewish scholar? >> little accomplished for me to say i and a scholar but i do teach religion at the beginning of the career with it and i do have bookselling judea's in into hundred articles high award from the u.s. jewish association i know the 51st books of the bible it hebrew better than english i use the work to explain to people of every background i believe will whole blocks as the greatest book ever written and edited is for humanity of course, it was given to the jews but if ever a buddy live by it that is all you need. we started because we are worried about what is happening at universities with more confrontation and education you are my favorite show. my wife is here we have told you this before you did not ask me to live not sure you believe we but the only tv air really watch.. booktv i am crazy about it. my wife introduce me to you over a debt of gratitude but this is years ago. it is phenomenal. i love books. i started reading in collecting books i am crazy about blocks. but the unive

number four, anti-jewish care. and, finally, and the one that i think is the most sophisticated and, therefore, may be the most dangerous in that sense because the others at least are overt and public and clear, is what i would call the laundry or masking of anti-semitism under universal public values. they are all the things that people care about in their common humanity. i hope then and if time permits to not leave it in an analytical framework but to suggest some initiatives that we may take as a group of scholars to both not only better understand but to better address and redress this new anti-semitism. let me begin with the first metric of the new anti-semitism, what i would call genocidal anti-semitism. this is not a term that i use lightly were easily. it is a term that i am taking right out of the genocide conventions prohibition against the direct and public incitement to genocide. as the supreme court of canada put it in a major case in the matter of upholding the constitutionality of our anti-hate legi

and he boldly challenged the jewish community to do more saying, "we must act. interest, human self-interest, is often our nemesis. it is the audacity of faith that redeems us." it is with great pleasure that i get to invite up to the podium rabbi herschel's daughter, susannah, who chairs the jewish studies program at dartmouth college and serves on committee of ethics, religion, and holocaust, to deliver a tribute to her father's great friend, john lewis. ♪ >> we are gathered together this evening during the national days of holocaust remembrance and we want to pay tribute to you, congressman john lewis. we honor you with an award in the name of our extraordinary friend and witness, elie wiesel. we honor you during these days that commemorate the horrors of the holocaust, but also our survival and regeneration as a jewish people. and we present this award to you in tribute to your courage, your moral leadership, for your work in congress, for your devotion to the ongoing struggle for justice in this country. you represent one of the central lessons of the unite

the painting had belonged to a german-jewish businessman killed in the holocaust. when the painting resurfaced in the israel museum 60 years later, the family made a claim. the museum returned it to the family, who took it to sotheby's, who sold it for $31,000,000 in 2014. museums are often caught in the middle. >> before we buy a work of art, we do as much research as we can. >> reporter: eric lee is director of the kimbell art museum in fort worth, texas. after a flurry of looted art claims 15 years ago, american museums adopted guidelines telling them how to handle nazi- looted art. >> it's an ongoing process, but there are always gaps. and rarely do we have a history of complete ownership of a work of art from the time it was created until today. >> reporter: the kimbell decided to review everything and be transparent, posting online the ownership histories, calling the provenance. sometimes this process meant reckoning with uncomfortable truths. this canvass by 19th century british painter joseph turner hung in the museum for 40 years. in 2006, a family came f

there is muslim anti-semitism and jewish racism. ander kind of people -- every kind of people could be as hateful as any other people. nobody has a monopoly on bigotry andin tolerance but i will add that simply questioning israeli policy in connection with the palestinians is not inherently anti-jewish. there are legitimate complaints people could make and they should make them based on facts, based on good faith. they should never only single israel out for violations because there is a whole lot of violations of human rights going on across this globe. but at the same time if there are israeli hume ran rights violations against palestinians, i don't think it is right to ignore them and don't think it is anti-semitism to ignore fact-based situations when it occurs. so that is all i have to say about it. >> to that point we had a young lady at indiana university who was threatened for being vocal in terms of the expansion of settlements in israel. i took a trip recently with a congressional black caucus and we pushed the issue with

immediately began the way of establishing the jewish community. >> the jewish war veterans group wasounded in 1896 by civil war veterans. they wanted to fight the stereotype that jews did not contribute to protecting our country. today, the group advocates for veterans of all wars. >> we revised. we need help. >> in northwest washon >> and the national museum over jewish military history opens to the public, monday through friday, including memorial day. and admission is free. >>> trending now. online outrage tonight, over george zimmerman's quest to sell the gun. that he united used to kill trayvon martin. >> caitlin jenner may soon decide to become bruce once again. >>> and it's not a pipe dream. a six-hour trip may take you 30 minutes. technology that could be a reality in just a matter of >>> i'm delia delia goncalves in bethesda. trees are disappearing left and right in these neighborhoods and homeowners were never told why. i'll get to the root of the problem coming up. >>> and we steer away from the problem with the trending train k. get to our focused thinking report. george

you did a talk on that here also the co-author the lost and found world of cairo that was named the jewish book of the year. i plan now to sit down and pay close attention to duty nine and ask that you do the same. [applause] i'm sorry i cannot control the brush fire but a key for waiting i will tell you about something that happened to meet. a few of years ago when i went to mail a package at the central post office i and they're almost every day for the year 25 years everybody is charitable though long -- the lines were long and finally reach the counter i handed the clerk my package should probably heard might foreign accent grab at the package read through it on the scale should plastisol overall every single i said what are you doing? she just looked in the with utter contempt and announced we don't have time for ascetic's. is a common idea and especially in jerusalem with politics than violence and ethnic stripes it is viewed as an excuse for ugliness and other types. but now on this occasion it hit me we don't have time for us statics -- aesthetics by halftime and i don't think hist

. >>> a child is charged in what police are calling a deliberate attack against a jewish community in york. david. >> it's going to be cool out there today so we're dressing the kids in jackets. a sprinkle or spotty shower is also possible. depending on what's going on in your neighborhood, maybe some rain gear. but i don't think most of the kids will need that, though. we'll have live radar coming up, show you where it's raining right now and give you the work week forecast. that's all coming up. >> ♪ p?p?o?gv >> we are following breaking news. one person killed and three others you. >> a stab tag train station in germany early this morning. it happened about 20 miles east of munich and near the end of one of the city's commuter rail way lines. police arrested the suspected assailant a 27-year-old german national. investigators say the man expressed political motivations during the attack but did not give further details. >>> and this is new video just in moments ago showing a massive tornado in oklahoma yesterday. you can see the fury of this twitter, it's enormous going around dest

they say this was a deliberate attack against the jewish community.ice are looking for the other children involved in the bus fire. >>> a high school student in california is demanding an investigation into a yearbook mishap that is at the very least an unfortunate coincidence. this is bayan zehlif a junior from rancho cucamonga. she's a muslim. this is how her name appeared in the yearbook. if we can take -- yes, isis phillips. zehlif says she was hurt and embarrassed by the ordeal and decided to take her complaint to the council on american-islamic relations. >> i don't want it for myself fish needmyself -- my selfish r. >> the school district launch add review but says it could just be an awful mistake. you see there was an actual student named isis phillips who transferred earlier this year and other students were also miss named in the yearbook. >>> one of the most recognizable attorneys in the mobile alabama area now has his own troubles with the law. deputies pulled over david maloney early sunday morning for speeding in a 35 miles per hour zon

and the persecution of jewish and other minority communities. children, now elderly men and women gathered to celebrate the life of the man who gave them a future. he was just 28 years old. he was a stockbroker in london when he organized trains to take jewish people to safety. children.69 for many years he harbored a regret he could not have rescued more. he kept quiet about what he had done until his wife found his scrapbook. >> this is his scrapbook. back here you will see the list of the children. -- n 1988 i should tell you you are sitting next to nicholas winton. [applause] >> is there anyone in her audience tonight who owes their life to nicholas winton? could you stand up? anyone who owes their life, would you stand up? >> 28 years later, between five and 7000 people do. one is curt tauzin. he remembers the train journey. he became a pilot. >> i/o everything to him. everything. without him, nothing would have happened. there. have been i would have been lost. and the others that continue to live remember a modest hero and celebrated a li

so when it is relevant i bring up being jewish. it turns out you don't have to bring up being jewish to be attacked for being a jew. it actually would be wrong to suggest that it's something new and its ugly new phase of our society because in our experience which is now probably into its fourth decade in washington, people there has always been a small group of people who can only see through the lens of your religion or ethnicity, or gender. one of the things i really love is the people who e-mail me and they address me as ruthie, which first of all really pisses off my mother. second of all, it is always followed by something by something that is condescending, demeaning, nasty, and political nasty. there's i spent a group of people who many years ago will like they stick cut out the thing and write jew bench on the thing and mail it to usf okay that's who i am, thank you very much. but the mechanisms of modern communication have made that so much easier because now you actually don't need a postage stamp to call me or julie or

this comes from susan of the "jewish poison opinion." jewish voice is -- "voic and opinion." her question is, is it possible that primarily muslim led anti-virtual and judea phobic throughout the world has legitimize the islamic phobic rhetoric you are talking about today? there's a number of assumptions in their. -- there. muslims and american juice have a lot in common. american lot of -- jews have a lot in common. the truth is that on the issue of israel, palestine peace, there's a lot of approaches. i haven't to support a two state solution. -- happen to support a two state solution. this is a topic that cries out for attention and people want to focus their attention on what might be due to resolve that conflict. they are taking different kinds of approaches. and some of them might be more constructive than others. i will simply say that -- i would not say anti-muslim hate is connected to muslims raising around the current israeli policy vis-a-vis the palestinians. i don't think one is driving the other. there is muslim anti-semitism. there is jewish racism. every kind o

he calls him names often called to jewish people.e wraps this letter up, "i am very sorry of your low mental status. when you finish your service with the navy, i hope you have an opportunity under the g.i. bill, which i helped pass, to go to a school and become to a intelligent enough to learn the difference between a white mule and a jackass." also in response to bilbo, there were other more organized campaigns. father devine was a cult leader in the early 20th century. he believed in integration and peace and equal opportunities for everybody. but he started an anti-bilbo campaign. this is father devine. he is posing with this gentleman, who just happens to be from mississippi. parts of his campaign ran in newspapers. another example of the campaign includes -- this particular one says "we sleep together in queen anne's bed." he will have ones like "we eat together, we drink together, we take baths together." it reinforces the equality between the races. the things that people want to know about bilbo, more race relations things.

most jewish cultural figures to leave nazi germany. the most remarkable immigration, cultural immigration the exodus of figures in germany in the early 1930s is so notable and benefited greatly in southern california where there is an Émigre community in the hollywood community with marlin d. trish. if one was not jewish and thought once or could fit into the nazi or shame, people stayed and made a go of it and try to find acceptance in the third reich. that's what i'm so interested in our cultural heroes who i think the disposition for anti-nazis with very little sympathy for hitler and the racism and hatred. they wanted to stay at work in our homeland. whether it careers of the great depression and i thought made in 33 an opportunity to work, with their public spending of public works, they invested a great deal of money and culture in the arts and they were great patrons. suddenly there were opportunities to design and compose and build and i was very tempted for these people who had been the lay nearest and 3233. i thought that was

most jewish cultural figures did leave it nazi germany. they realized early on that there was no place for them in hitler's germany and they realized the most remarkable immigration in the early 1930s was so notable and we in america benefited greatly, especially here in southern california where there is a community, but if one was not jewish and one thought one's work could fit in the not nazi regime they stayed and tried to make a go of it. that's what i'm so interested in our cultural heroes who i think by disposition were anti-nazis. they had very little sympathy for hitler and the racism and hatred, but they saw themselves as german and they wanted to stay and work in their homeland, whether it was because they endured three years of the great depression, economic economic hardship and they saw 1933 and opportunity to work, the nazis with their public spending in their public works, they invested a great deal of money and culture in the arts and they were great patrons. suddenly there were these opportunities to design and compose an

so when it is relevant, i bring up being jewish. but it turns out you don't have to be jewish, to be attacked for being a jew. it actually would be wrong to suggest that it's something new and it's ugly, new phase of our society. because in my experience, which is now probably into its fourth decade in washington, people there has always been a small group of people who can only see you through the lens of your religion or ethnicity or gender. one of the things i really love is the people who e-mail me, and they address me as ruthie. which, first of all, really pisses off my mother. and second of all, it is always followed by something, by something that is condescending, demeaning, nasty, and political belittling. people, whoways many years ago will like they stick cut out the thing and write jew bitch. that's who i am, thank you very much. but the mechanisms of modern communication have made that so much easier. because now you actually don't need a postage stamp to call me or julie are anybody else a jew bitch. you can just tweet

the denial of the fundamental rights of the jewish people. in other words, if the first indicator is a public call for the destruction of israel and the jewish people and if in the second metric israel and the jewish people are the embodiment of all evil, warranting the assaults upon it then political anti-semitism is a denial of israel's right to exist to begin with or the denial of its legitimacy or the denial of the jewish people's right to self-determination if not even their denial as a people. as martin luther king jr. put it, i quote, it is the denial to the jews of the same right, the right to self-determination that we afford african nations and all people of the globe. in short, it is anti-semitism. which brings me to a forty metric u and that is the phenomenon of anti-jewish terror. underpinned by antijewish state sanctioned incitement and then the glorification of that terrorism and even the rewarding of that terrorism. by both hamas and the palestinian authority. let me just say that the 21st century also began in the year octobe

madison keeps bringing up the k-word, but it has not been reclaimed at all by jewish people.d to be used as a term of endearment, and the argument falls flat on its face, and is it is not a comparison to be used. if you are at any barbershop or hanging out with the african-american men and women as well, wrote u will see this word used as a term of acceptance and acknowledgment, and it is not a slur in that sense, and everybody gets to choose when and how and if they use it. i think that part of the problem is that non-african-americans are upset that they can't use the word, and to be seeing it use sod freely by larry wilmore in a public space -- >> and most of the people that were upset were african-american s, and even bill o'reilly said that he was not offended. >> most? >> yes, that i saw offended were african-americans. >> most? >> well, wait a minute. excuse me. white folks don't have any problem using that word. i mean, are you kidding me? are you saying that -- you are sawing that they can't use it freely, but they use it when they lynch you or when they want to be d