COVER STORT
"As Jews, we have an increased moral obligation to respond, to
speak out and take action against ethnic cleansing. The epithet
"
never again" must not be reserved for Jews alone.
),
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Genocide in
SHARON LUCKERMAN
StairWriter
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s news of the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region spread
Africa stirs an
throughout the Western world over the past 18
months, local and national Jewish groups have shown
a particular interest in educating Americans and aiding the
outpouring of
situation.
"For the first time in its histor37, the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum [in Washington, D.C.] declared a 'genocide
Jewish aid.
emergency' in the Sudan, indicating that genocide is imminent or
is actually happening in the Darfur region," Allan Gale, associate
director of the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit, reported in his weekly Israel Advocacy Network e-mail.
"To date, as . many as 50,000-100,000 Sudanese civilians have
been killed."
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