Rabbi Shmuley Boteach of Englewood, founder of This World: The Jewish Values Network, will present a a historic panel on the topic of genocide a timely subject in the wake of the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria.
The panel entitled "Genocide: Do the Strong Have a Responsibility to Protect the Weak?" will take place Sunday, Sept. 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the Great Hall at Cooper Union in New York City.
“This panel discussion brings together two of the most famous names in the world related to genocide in the 20th century—President Kagame, who stopped the world’s fastest ever genocide, and Elie Wiesel, the living embodiment of the memory of the six million martyrs of the Holocaust,” said Rabbi Boteach in a statement.
“I travelled to Rwanda twice, just recently again with my family, and shared with President Kagame my strong belief in his joining Prof. Wiesel in a public forum to motivate the world’s nations to prevent genocide. It is our hope that the world can learn from both these men in order to prevent the future mass slaughter of innocents.”
In addition to President Kagame and Weisel, the panel also includes Philanthropist Sheldon Adelson the world leader in funding holocaust memory and Michael Steinhardt co-founder of Birthright Israel which is considered the world's most successful Jewish education project.
Boteach will moderate the panel and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, chaplain of New Jersey University and Director of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at the school will provide opening remarks.
Tickets to the event cost $20 per person for the general public or $10 for students.
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