ADL
Director Abraham Foxman Discusses Jews And Money At Hartford Mandell
JCC
Photo: INA
/ Rebecca McCann
By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
West
Hartford, CT ---- May 7, 2011 ...... The Mandell JCC Jewish Book
Festival recently invited Abraham H. Foxman, National Director
of the ADL, to speak about his new book Jews and Money, The
Story of a Stereotype.
Abe
Foxman is one of perhaps a handful of real Jewish heroes living
outside of Israel.
Foxman,
who was born in Poland in 1940, survived the Holocaust with the
help of Catholics who baptized and raised him as a Catholic. He
and his parents arrived in America in 1950. Foxman was a member
of the Presidents United States Holocaust Memorial Council,
appointed by Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton. He has also
been a participant of official Presidential delegations to special
events in Europe and Israel, as well as having had six audiences
with Pope John Paul II. Mr. Foxman is a passionate supporter of
the State of Israel and a voice for peace in the Middle East.
Today, Abe
Foxman serves as the National Director of the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL), leading the war on racist hatred and discrimination
across the world.
"In the
past few weeks we have witnessed some very important acts of good
over evil," Foxman told a packed audience in West Hartford,
Connecticut.
"Pope John Paul II speaking at the Yad
Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel paid open homage to the
millions of Jewish people who were murdered in the Holocaust.
We have witnessed the death of master terrorist Osama bin-Laden
who was responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks in New York and
Washington. But even with these recent major deeds, anti-Semitism
continues to grow."
"One
of three people in Europe believe that the current global recession
was created by the Jews, while one of five Americans blame the
Jews for the recession," says Foxman.
"We have
witnessed how Bernard Madoff was mentioned as a Jew three times
in one news story by the New York Times as the story of
his fraud scheme started to unravel. We have seen how the work
of Shakespeare in his book the Merchant of Venice has in
the past and continues today to create a stereotype of money hungry
Jews. We have witnessed how Hitler and the Nazis portrayed the
Jews as being responsible for the economic downfall of Germany
after World War One."
"What
I say is do not buy into it. When you hear a disparaging
remark about Jews and their so-called obsession with money,
speak out, confront and educate those who you meet that
this is not true, that this is not funny, this is not reality.
That this is racist speech and it hurts us."
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ADL National Director Abraham Foxman
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Foxman continues:
"What I say is do not buy into it. When you hear a disparaging
remark about Jews and their so-called obsession with money, speak
out, confront and educate those who you meet that this is not
true, that this is not funny, this is not reality. That this is
racist speech and it hurts us."
Foxmans
new book, Jews
& Money: The Story of a Stereotype, highlights the
current struggle by the US to recover from financial crisis and
the search for blame as it intensifies. Foxman warns that this
is an especially dangerous time for certain anti-Semitic sentiments
to rise namely, false and slanderous beliefs about the
Jewish people and money.
The 18th Anniversary
of the Mandell JCC Jewish
Book Festival and the Abraham H. Foxman event included the premiere
of "Off The Page" 18 Years of Memories - Mandell JCC
Jewish Book Festival: A Documentary. The film is being produced
and directed by Pat Kazakoff and Eliane Freund, with cinematography
by Melanie Rosenberg.
The Abraham
H. Foxman Jewish Book Festival event, on May 4, 2011, was made
possible by these Mandell JCC Partners as of 03/23/2011: Saint
Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Webster Bank, The Jewish
Community Foundation of Greater Hartford, BNY Mellon Wealth Management
Group, LAZ Parking, Xerox, Residence Inn of Downtown Hartford
by Marriott, Headline Hair Designers, The Jewish Book Council,
and the Greater Hartford Arts Council.
The Anti-Defamation
League was founded in 1913 "to stop the defamation of the
Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all."
Now the nation's premier civil rights and human relations agency,
ADL fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic
ideals and protects civil rights for all.
A leader in
the development of materials, programs and services, ADL builds
bridges of communication, understanding and respect among diverse
groups, carrying out its mission through a network of 30 regional
and satellite offices in the United States and abroad.
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