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2010-01-22Darfur Shabbat resources

For further information on the genocide in Darfur:

1. Visit www.cjc.ca/darfur

2. Download Darfur: A Jewish Response at http://www.cjc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/ 11/Darfur-A-Jewish-Response-by-CJC.pdf

3. Order copies of Darfur: A Jewish Response by emailing CanadianJewishCongress@cjc.ca – we encourage you to hold up a copy of the book during your sermon, so that others might request copies

4. Visit the Darfur-Sudan Peace Network, Canada’s main Darfur advocacy umbrella organization at http://peacenetwork.ca/

5. Visit STAND Canada, a leading Canadian youth-led anti-genocide advocacy and activism group, at http://standcanada.org/. STAND Canada aims to “make it easy” to act against genocide.

6. Watch the extraordinary video and backgrounder at http://www.standforthedead.com/

7. For a timeline on recent Darfuri history, visit http://www.miafarrow.org/timeline.html

8. To read poetry about Darfur, visit http://www.thehypertexts.comFor%20Darfur%20Poets%20Poetry%20Literature%20Art%20Genocide.htm

9. To read a recent article on the current fragile calm in Darfur, click http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/world/africa/ 02darfur.html?scp=2&sq=darfur&st=cse

For further, general information on the Jewish response to Darfur:

1. Visit www.cjc.ca/darfur

2. Download Darfur: A Jewish Response at http://www.cjc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/ 11/Darfur-A-Jewish-Response-by-CJC.pdf

3. Order copies of Darfur: A Jewish Response by emailing CanadianJewishCongress@cjc.ca.

4. Read “Jewish Responses to Genocide” by American Jewish World Service and Yeshiva University at http://ajws.org/what_we_do/education/resources/jewish-responses-to- genocide-2007.pdf

5. Read the “Jewish Informal Educational Resource” by American Jewish World Service and the Foundation for Jewish Camping, aimed at 14-16 year-olds, at http://ajws.org/ what_we_do/education/resources/not-on-our-watch-booklet.pdf

6. Visit the Religious Action Centre of Reform Judaism’s Darfur page at http://rac.org/ advocacy/issues/issuesudan/sudangen/.

For further information on the sixty-fifth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz:

1. Visit the website of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum at http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/ index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=721&Itemid=7

2. Visit the website of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/auschwitz/


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