the capital jewish museum. and all of its activities allow so that our past can inform our present and animate our future. to this beautiful, sacred building, may god bless you and your comings. you in yourys bless goings. amen. crowd: amen. >> thank you. alls so tempting to go metaphoric today. yes, this is literally a building rolling dumbest reason behind us, but it is also a remarkable symbol of our city -- a building rolling down the street behind us, but it is also a remarkable symbol of our city. the firstbuilding was synagogue built an hour city. it was dedicated in 1876 with ulysses s grant as president looking on. it was built in just three months. more than just 300 people would go into its sanctuaries for services. 30 years later's, after that -- built a congregation was and sold and became a part of this city's fabric. ,t was home to greek orthodox african-american churches, and then a bicycle shop, a delhi, a dentist, coffee shop, a barbecue restaurant, chinese and jewish grocers. metro slated the

the capital jewish museum will be a place where we can talk about jewish life in the nation's capital. we can tell stories about the people who came to washington to have an impact on public discourse and on the course of our country. we can talk about the people who came to washington as activists and protesters to make change in the nation's capital. we are excited to have a secular space for conversation across communities, where we can elevate civil discourse. where we can have difficult conversations. it is a special and unique space designed for families, interactive, but an unconventional spirit to it. i grew up here. this is part of my story. my great-grandmother opened a grocery store on kennedy street. this is part of my family story, i remember coming down with a caravan of cars on a cold winter day to protest in front of the soviet embassy on behalf of freedom for soviet jews. this is a city about making change. it is really a part of my story too, so it is special for me. >> what will happen today? what is your agenda? >> at 9:15 we have a rabbi from one of the local jewi

the capital jewish museum. and all of its activities allow us to live so that our past can inform our present and animate our future. to this beautiful, sacred building, may god bless you and your comings. may god always bless you in your goings. amen. >> amen. >> thank you. it is so tempting to go all metaphor today. yes, this is literally a building rolling down the street behind us, but it is also a remarkable symbol of our city. and the jewish community here, of resilience and adaptation, of mobility, memory, and change. this tiny building is the first synagogue that was built in our nations capital. it was dedicated in 1876 with ulysses s grant as president looking on. it was built in just three months. more than just 300 people would pack into its narrow sanctuary for services. 30 years later, after that congregation built a brand-new synagogue, this building was sold and it became a part of the city's fabric. it was home to greek orthodox, and african-american churches, and then a bicycle shop, a deli, a

the national jewish welfare board had the opinion that washington needed a jewish community center.ion's capital, we should make sure the nation's capital has this gathering place the cousin brings jews from so many parts of the world together. the national jewish welfare board put up additional money and the local community grabbed and it resulted in this beautiful building that is there now. one of the other stories -- and somethingies, that is particularly relevant today is this engraved invitation to the first time the historic synagogue was moving. we are here to watch it will for the third and final time. moved was ine it 1969 from its original home at the corner of sixth and g. it moved to the corner of third and g. this was in 1969. this was one year after riots that tore up washington, d.c. after martin luther king was assassinated. the downtown court did not look like it did today. community came together to save this building and find a piece of leftover highway land. president nixon had to sign a bill that allowed the city of washington to acquire the synagogue for the j

the capital jewish museum will be a place where we can really talk about jewish life in the nation's capital. we can tell stories about the people who came to washington who have an impact on public discourse and the course of the country. we talk about all the people who came to washington as activists and protesters to make change through the nations capital. we are really excited to have a space, secular space, across space across communities where we can elevate civil discourse and have difficult conversations. it's a really special unique space designed for families interactive with an unconventional and experimental's here it. i grew up here. this is very much part of my story, my great-grandmother came to washington and opened a grocery store on kennedy street. this is part of my family story. i remember as a kid coming down with the caravan on a cold winter day and on behalf of freedom for soviet jews, this is a video about making change, this is really a part of my story so it's really special for me. >> so what happens today? >> what your agenda? at 9:15 am we have a rabbi

material that she was for birthright so young people jewish people. can see what's in store for them what kind of impact that it was a life changing impact a life changing trip so i'm just going to play a little bit of this and i would love to hear your reaction. i feel more jewish than i did before i feel more correct to it so i can tell you about my experiences that i can tell you about the history of the people i jewish you're not you're not christian issue you're not catholic like why why is there this is shown in there go on like. that sort of like it was like the final like in my heart. i definitely feel a new sense of connection with my family my true gave me a better understanding of what like my grandmother's family had gone through and proctor and i definitely understand myself better after the trip the journey certainly did not end when i got home how could i say that it ended when i have relationships that are still burgeoning i feel very comfortable in israel i feel very at home with its release. i mean i think it's it's totally great tha

he writes widely on modern jewish history, focusing on themes from zionism and the holocaust, to jewish music, american jewish identity and yiddish culture. his first book was on the russian empire, published in 2010. which one eight major awards and honors. more recently, in may, 2018, he published a book on which this lecture is based. "rooted cosmopolitans: jews and human rights in the twentieth century." that will also be the title of his lecture tonight. i encourage you, the book is outside for you to buy and read after the program. with that, it is my pleasure to call on professor james loeffler . >> good evening. it is a pleasure to be here tonight and an honor to deliver the 10th annual rothschild lecture. i do want to thank the staff of the institute, kevin -- i want to thank everyone who makes these lectures possible. i am going to have the chances you heard, to speak about morris abram, although you already heard a lot about him. my work is made easier by the wonderful description of him. he had an incredibly rich and diverse career in law, politics, and international affairs

so the reason why you have seen me say things about the jewish community, the reason why you hear me talking about anti-semitism, is because i truly believe that those issues are issues that we need to address. >> do you think that you have evolved your thinking... >> yes. >> ...especially with respect to the discrimination against jewish people? >> absolutely. certainly. when we first heard in charlottesville, "the jews will not replace us," i did not -- i didn't pick up on it. i thought they were saying, "you will not replace us." but when someone said to me, "hey, they're saying, 'the jews will not replace us,'" i was horrified. and i think, in that moment, what i realized is that we need to make sure that we understand all of the communities that are hurt and feeling, in this moment, this incredible sense of despair. and i think that's why there are definite legitimate concerns about jewish women feeling included, so i don't want to take away from that. but there's also a sense of divisiveness. >> i want to change the subject a little bit. i noticed, as i was doing my research on

we're having a conversation about jewish camping and the jewish world. let's talk a little bit about whyoung coming to the is it tha difference. >> i think one of the special things is you get to leave behind things at home. the things worrying you or weighing on you during the school year. it's a fun community getting to know people and exploring new kinds of activities. different kinds of art you done before or sports or singing or slack lining or any of the different things we offer. you could just know about your different people. it can be difficult sometimes. they can be their self. >> in the bay area we're jews of color, immigrant jews and juice who are american california to the bay area itself. especially in a place where you meet jews different from you. can you talk about a person being in a place so different from their own neighborhood, home or school. >> that's such a good question and so vast. it touches on a lot of the beauty and challenge of what we're doing in camping. a lot is made harder by the removed tenology in our lives and it's a

this was the position of what was the american jewish congress at the time. there were great debates in there and we are basically back to this place today where we're still debating this. we are in an interesting plaus because i think it's fair to say that there are certain jewish organizations which are very assertive. we want to have hate speech laws, we want to ban -- boycott divestment sanctions, we want to do these things because we see them as unique threats to this particular minority group as well as to others. and there are other organizations and other voices that say absolutely not, we don't want that because that would be censorship. it's an age old tension and he came to a position and he like many people struggled with this, i think, because he felt like i've been fighting for equality, i don't want the la you to recognize any difference. now, if you indulge me let me say one more thing about this. i mentioned the whole question of anti-semitism. some of you may remember that one of the things that some people pointed to as the best example of

but their anger magnified by yet another desecration of a jewish cemetery. these were just one of dozens of demonstrations nationwide in response to a search and high semitic hate crimes. if you either think that anti-semitic actions are on the rise to get something that strikes fear that brings back bad memories we want to show younger generations there's another path to take them up on. this is what future the outreach the jewish cemetery in the village of quite some time in eastern france he faced with swastikas and other anti-semitic graffiti french president and went away mcallen has vowed to bring the vandals to justice and once more to stop anti-semitism in its tracks. a group of individuals full of hate has unfortunately done what others have done before for too many nation infighting and he semitism whatever shape it takes. this was the second time a jewish cemetery has been desecrated in recent months and fronts in december nearly forty graves and a holocaust memorial were vandalized in the same region. it is attacks like these that brought people

playwrights and did not allow jewish actors.left and she accompanied the man she loved george mondello, politician who churchill would come to london and meet the free french but mondello couldn't leave because he was jewish . he be charged with desertion so she stayed with him and and she took him food and looked after his orphaned daughter. it was not black and white, it was not straightforward for many of the performances, many of the performers were the one picked up in the time of liberation because they were seen to support the liberation and its story of stacy was dave stated by men dream who ran a nightclub, many of the nightclubs were fiercely pro-resistance and stacy me off was a young south african jewish daughter, very impoverished but desperately wanted to dance with the ballet. she was taken on ally and trapped in paris and didn't know what to do so and renee saved her, taught her a new dance routine. she became famous and was the talk of the town.however in 1943 the germans wanted to take a group of performers to

communities to speak to a jewish leader in germany. and at the berlin nala elise such as marcella tell the story of a same sex marriage in spain one hundred years before it was legalized but the film has stirred controversy because it's produced by netflix. thanks for joining us i'm mary and i haven't seen. the united states and israel are leading a new push to take a more aggressive stance on iran at a conference in the polish capital warsaw delegates from more than sixty countries are meeting for talks on security in the middle east they're sent to discuss the threat posed by iran as well as conflicts in syria yemen and israel palestine israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and u.s. vice president mike pence are headlining the meeting foreign ministers from many arab nations are also attending but the talks are also notable for the countries not sending high ranking delegations including france and germany now netanyahu has sparked controversy after he referred to a quote rouer with iran in a tweet which has since been deleted is

he has jewish children. he has jewish grandchildren who he seems to be very proud of. he has great connections with many jews. some of my best friends are jews are a cover for anti-semites. what he has done is made it comfortable to engage in rhetoric, violent rhetoric, rhetoric that is hateful. when he talked in charlottesville, there are nice people on both sides, i'm sorry, nice people do not march through a town with their hands outstretched in the nazi salute saying jews will not replace us. nice people don't march with symbols that are swastika-like. he has done this over and over again. his rants about a horde of refugees, we're being infiltrated, which is what prompted the guy in pittsburgh to do what he did. all those things lower the level of discourse and raise the attacks on one another. he is not helpful in this regard. the critics of this position will come back and say, he moved the embassy to jerusalem. he has so good to israel. that's true. that's true. none of it is untrue. it coexists with this other part. >> do you think anti-semitism naturally coex

it's the latest attack against jewish people in france on saturday in paris french philosopher fingal kraut was insulted for being jewish during a yellow fest protest about the low blow reacting to the attack the french president wrote on twitter the anti semitic insults he has been subjected to all the absolute negation of what we are and what makes us a great nation we will not tolerate it last week a memorial tree to a young jewish man who was tortured to death in two thousand and six was vandalized near paris while in the city the german word for jews was sprayed across a popular bagel shop and to portray it was defaced of one of france's most famous women holocaust survivor and feminist minister cmon vai the graffiti on these letter boxes may have been a raise but the french government is struggling to make anti jewish sentiment disappear across the country in fact the french interior minister has called it a poison spreading across the country because over the past year attacks against jewish people have risen by more than seventy percent some people say that the yellow vest mov

and she had been part of a jewish school class. this is a picture of the class either from 1939 and 1940. as far as we know, two girls from this class about the holocaust. what you see on this interactive table how this influenced real people and those americans who made the decision to try to sponsor refugees, the challenging bureaucracy they had to navigate. we also show here harrowing stories of individual americans who took extraordinary risks to try to rescue individual jews or masses of jews and these are outliers, these are people who went against the mainstream, wrist their lives at times or push the boundaries of the law or even broke the law to aid refugees. one story we tell is of a couple from philadelphia, gilbert and eleanor krause. he's an attorney and she is a homemaker. they decided 1939 to go to vienna to try to rescue 50 children. they get affidavits of sponsorship from people in their own community in philadelphia, they work in conjunction with the state department although there is some resistance there and the

wanted to basically kill as many jewish children as possible. 1 1/2 million roughly jewish children died during the holocaust. that is a huge number just imagine one and half million jewish children, it is like if everybody in indianapolis was a child today and i am talking about greater indianapolis including the suburbs and imagine everyone is a child and everybody is living there right now is killed. that is the number of jewish children that were killed between say 1939 and 1944 in a matter of 4 1/2 years. so with that introduction here is the town where i grew up as a child. it is the city of prague in czechoslovakia. it is an old city with a lot of beautiful old and gothic architecture. this is a dirty apartment house which looks really dirty and grubby right now in this picture. the reason it is dirty and grubby is because this picture was taken immediately after the communist regime folded in the late 1990s and it was not taking care of. was an apartment building that belonged to my grandparents and it has now been fixed up and painted and it looks like a new building. my family

this is jewish learned and the jewish need to live here. be a little star learned here to me and i will add a lot of love. only alina item on the diamond. we are not finished the job we are going to do next no board enough to go more. that day they came at ten o'clock just just. i was in the school. my grandma was making coffee one of the suppliers come inside and looked at the door. and ask if this furniture for who've. watched the stuff. was just stuff such as if i think you could stick with. the for. me. to be different. when i come back to school i i knew that my dream and hospital and then i told them my good man those were the grim and those with so much. i was like screaming get the circulars and put. the doors we want leave. i feel like anger i feel so angered. been there. really sick got off. not intimate that night initiation of one of the. most often in bed that are each of you who are put off. i hate them for reason because. they make our los worst life endure. of actually leading the walk on the field the other. year with the p

focus on europe it's nice to have you with us from harassment and swastikas to the desecration of jewish memorials friends is grappling with a rise in anti semitism dozens of graves were recently vandalized at a jewish cemetery in the region of alsace. and in paris and he's a medic protesters hurled abuse a jewish philosopher finkel kraut such incidents have sadly become commonplace in france. well the statistics are alarming last year the number of reported anti semitic attacks rose by seventy four percent president emmanuel mccraw announced new measures to tackle the problem saying it has reached its worst levels since the second world war and despite friends being home to europe's largest jewish community many french jews such as don't need no longer feel safe in their country part of his family already left for israel now dinny is wondering if he should follow in their footsteps. in this neighborhood north of paris where many jews lived in need local mall makes his home he has a company that appraises real estate here his children grew up here. but he says it's just a matter of time

and head of the jewish congress. he writes this letter and he is trying to get the information to the state department. the contents of this letter are harrowing. he says in hitler's headquarters a plan is being considered to wipe out at one blow three and half million to 4 million jews this autumn . what the state department right here is the legation at berne has no information which would confirm this rumor and believes it is one of the many unreliable war rumors circulating in europe today. this is in 1942 and you can see the state department has written on here do not send. they block this information from making it because they dismissed it as an unreliable war rumor. john reger also sent this information to a member of british parliament samuel silverman. here you can see a facsimile of the telegram that then is sent to rabbi wise august 29 1942. the information does make it to him from silverman that there is a plan as he writes discussed and under consideration all jews in countries or occupied and controlle

rallies against anti semitism the protests come after us spike in incidents targeting that country's jewish community and as the government promises to clamp down also coming up. to abuse annual freedom of speech award goes to ana bell hernandez for risking her life to report and expose mexico's drug cartels and the corruption inside the mexican government. and coming up. i'm never satisfied and as long as you're never satisfied to keep going as soon as you decide you're content with yourself or couldn't be any better it's time to call it a day of remembering a man who shaped the global fashion industry for decades tributes for and for the late karl lagerfeld. i'm dr thomas thanks so much for joining us thousands of people have been demonstrating in france and rallying in a number of cities to protest a spike in anti semitic incidents last after vandals defaced dozens of graves at a jewish cemetery an act condemned by president moneyball mccrone as an attack on the nation france is home to the world's largest jewish population outside israel and the u.s. . an outpouring of solidarity on par

criminal offense so what's the difference anti semitism hostility and prejudice directed against jewish people is a ready legal in france and opposition to the state of israel could soon be two now elsewhere in europe twelve m.p.'s resigned from their parties in the u.k. nine labor three conservatives citing the failure to deal with anti semitism as one of the reasons and the use says hate speech and harassment are becoming the new norm so is anti semitism a growing problem in europe and are jewish people being singled out we'll discuss that with our guests shortly but first david chaytor with more from paris. the french president emmanuel macron was saying that anti semitism has now reached its worst levels since the second world war figures published for last year show the number of anti-semitic attacks and risen by seventy four percent now france has the biggest jewish community in europe of course and he was speaking to community leaders at an annual dinner he promised a new legislation to ban hate speech on the internet he also asked his interior minister to take action to ban extr

hate crimes against jews are at their highest level in a decade sparking alarm among the country's jewish community. also coming up the girl whose pains moved to the worlds and strengthens the movement to end the vietnam war now unesco goodwill ambassador and a peace activist she is receiving the peace prize awarded by the german city of dresden. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the number of anti-semitic crimes committed in germany has risen by almost ten percent over the past year the highest level in a decade figures released today are causing alarm in jewish communities violence attacks are up by more than sixty percent this has prompted germany's central council of jews to call for stronger action from police and politicians the signboards of a jewish restaurant smashed a pig headed marked with a star of david dumped by a door swastikas and stars of david on a wall. this was the aftermath of an anti semitic attack in the eastern german city of chemists in august twenty eighth. it was just one of more than sixteen hundred anti semitic crimes committed in germany last year that's

i do not exactly know why they are angry at the jewish people.continues till today, it is enough. that is what is written here, it is enough. politicians are many different partiesjoin enough. politicians are many different parties join the demonstrations, although the leader of the national front marine le demonstrations, although the leader of the nationalfront marine le pen said she was not planning to attend. france has the largestjewish population in northern europe, at figures show recent anti—semitic attacks increased by a0%. last week, protesters shouted abuse at a french philosopher, calling him a dirty zionist and telling him to go back to tel aviv. any claim the rise of the yellow vest has helped to galvanise a minority of anti—semitic extremist, a link the wider movement is keen to avoid. let's get some of the day's other news for you. brazil's government is to deliver aid to its border with venezuela within days, at the request ofjuan guaido, the venezuelan opposition leader who's declared himself president. other aid shipments are w

france to protest against anti-semitism that's after a spike in incidents targeting the country's jewish community. and use annual freedom of speech award goes to the nobel hernando's for risking her life to report and expose mexico's drug cartels and the corruption inside the mexican government. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us we begin with the death of one of the most creative forces in the world of fashion karl lagerfeld the creative head of fashion house chanel has died in paris at the age of eighty five during a career spanning some seventy years hamburg born designer was one of the most prolific in modern fashion for decades he played a key role in shaping the direction of a multibillion dollar global industry. few people can be called an icon however when it comes to fashion karl lagerfeld can definitely be called one and not just because of his trademark white ponytail high starch collar and dark glasses he's credited with making a struggling show nell company mighty again and outfitted a list actresses and models like naomi campbell claudia schiffer julianne mo

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 t recipient, the beneficiary of the blood and sweat and tears. >> i feel that the israeli government owes them, becausese 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

these are the images fueling the outrage at the jewish cemetery in the village of krotz and haim defaced with swastikas and other anti-semitic rashidi. fisk rave referenced a neo nazi separatist group from the one nine hundred seventy s. president has vowed to bring the vandals to justice and stamp out anti semitism. if it could be. made it was mafia a group of individuals full of hate toward any has unfortunately done others have done before for too many years. the new tool i am here above all to express the solidarity of the whole nation of our shame to see that small of our determined will to be together in these moments or others during which some of us were injured and to express our complete determination in fighting anti semitism whatever shape it takes. france has the highest jewish population in europe with over a half a million but the country has struggled to prevent violence against jews figures released just last week showed there were over five hundred anti-semitic attacks in france in twenty eight hundred seventy four percent increase on the previous year it seems anti-sem

france's jewish umbrella group crieff a series of vandalism acts insults against in the tory is jewish philosopher and the attack on the cemetery. of brought my call to address the problem before him. no simone in these moments when one of us is a tax we all attacks. i want to exexpress my determination along with the determination of others to run a case antisisemitism in alall its forms. the number of anti semitic attacks is lower than ththe numr of anti christian actss but french jews count for less than 1% of the population. since the early two thousands hate crimes have been on the rise successive governments appearing unable to stop the violence. we have five more comments and analysis cell on the story between now and midnight. paris time. next the king of could you call lagerfeld has died. tributes continue him into the design of bastogne perhaps his association with the f french iconic brand chanel. is personal exuberant sense of style is reflected in the originality of his designs. log about was eighty five years old and still. the model of your tastes the trends lagertha cou

relations, muslim -jewish relations, anti-poverty. spent my life doing this work. what i found from my experience is it is all about relationships. relationships can't be soundbited. when you're in a relationship like amy and tamika just described, you learn a lot more about each other and about what you each bring to it. it is very hard to do that when you have social media and print media and electronic media trying to tell your story for you. this situation has been very powerful and very difficult. it is also difficult when you are communicating to a grassroots -- i have a organization across the country and they are reading about lewis farrakhan who is anti-semitic and you're trying to message this and have conversations it isn't easy. there is an enormous amount of work that has to go on person by person, individual by individual. i give tamika and linda a great till of credit because rather than walking away from this or becoming defensive, they reached out to many of us in the jewish community to have a conversation. as that f