Make YOUR VOICE heard in the cry to stop the genocide now!
REGISTER to join KESHER in Washington, D.C. for the
"MILLION VOICES FOR DARFUR" Rally on Sunday, April 30th!
Click here for more information, how to get there and how to sign up:
KESHER & 'Million Voices for Darfur' Rally
Save Darfur Coalition's 'National Week of Prayer and Action'
Passover Resources about Darfur from American Jewish World Services
Darfur, Sudan
Over 400,000 people have lost their lives in Darfur since the government-sponsored genocide began in 2003. More than 2.5 million people have been displaced; their livelihoods and villages destroyed by government forces and their proxy militias. These forces have raped thousands of women and girls.
As a people intimately acquainted with the horrors of genocide , it is our responsibility to never forget the Holocaust and to apply its lessons to our own time. The people of Darfurare asking us to never forget. As Jews , human beings, and global citizens: we must take action now. Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel has said: "Now people know. And so they have no excuse for their passivity bordering on indifference."
The world has thus far remained shamefully silent in the face of these atrocities. It is now time for moral voices to be heard.
KESHER is proud to be working hard with Hillel that has joined with mtvU, the American Jewish World Service, STAND (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur), the Save Darfur Coalition, the International Crisis Group and other organizations in this effort.
Visit the Religous Action Center's Action Alert on Darfur
What Can You Do?
- Make YOUR VOICE heard in the cry to stop the genocide now! REGISTER to join KESHER in Washington, D.C. for the "MILLION VOICES FOR DARFUR" Rally on Sunday, April 30th! Click here for more information, how to get there and how to sign up: KESHER & 'Million Voices for Darfur' Rally
- Dimes for Darfur - North Carolina Hillel is sponsoring a national Hillel initiative to collect 1.5 million dimes ($150,000) to be donated to help Sudanese children who have become victims of genocide, in memory of the innocent children who perished in the Holocaust. By making a connection between the Holocaust and the present crisis in Sudan, we hope to actively work toward making "Never Again" a reality. For more information, contact Mark Sussman.
- Dunk for Darfur - Host a basketball tournament and charge each team a small entrance fee. Donate the profits to American Jewish World Service, SaveDarfur.org, or another organization working to stop the genocide. Get a prize donated from a local store and between games, have an MC educate the crowd about the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan.
- Chalking. Get up bright and early one morning and write facts about the genocide in Darfuracross campus sidewalks in green chalk.
- Sell “Not on Our Watch” Save Darfur bracelets (www.savedarfur.org) while handing out information from one of the many websites in your Student Union.
- Darfur Essay Contest - The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience is asking high school and university students to write an editorial explaining to their communities why the genocide in Sudan's western region of Darfur matters today. Students can enter their published editorials in the Committee on Conscience's editorial contest. For more information, including entry form and contest flyer, visit the contest Web site.
- GOT AN IDEA TO HELP STOP THE GENOCIDE?! A program to educate college students and university communities? Share it with KESHER and Hillel! Enter info under the KESHER Kibbitz area or email our Undergraduate Intern at j_goldstein@urj.org
Additional Resources
Tell us about your program! KESHER would love to support you in any ways that we can. Let us share your ideas and programs so that we may learn from each other and make a difference. Email our Undergraduate Intern at j_goldstein@urj.org or enter the info/ideas at our KESHER Kibbitz page!
