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Obama's Shoah Message
WASHINGTON/ JTA — President
Obama called on people to honor
the memory of Holocaust victims
in a statement released in honor of
Holocaust Remembrance Day.
"We must recommit ourselves to
honoring the memories of all the vic-
tims and ensuring that they remain
a part of our collective memory... We
must never tolerate the hateful stereo-
types and prejudice against the Jewish
people that tragically continues to
this day," Obama said in a statement
released Monday that touched on
familiar themes.
President Obama toured
Buchenwald in June 2009 with
German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
Elie Wiesel and survivor Bertrand
Herz. Obama visited Yad Vashem while
a presidential candidate in 2008.
Wrote Obama of his visits: "I
bore witness to the horrors of anti-
Semitism and the capacity for evil
represented by the Nazis' campaign to
annihilate the Jewish people and so
many others. But even at places like
Buchenwald, the dignity and courage
of those who endured the horrors of
the Holocaust remind us of humanity's
capacity for decency and compassion."

'Easy to forget': Sharansky
WARSAW/JTA — Former Soviet dis-
sident Natan Sharansky, who now
heads the Jewish Agency for Israel,
led more than 10,000 people in the
March of the Living in Poland on Yom
HaShoah.
"We have come here
today to remember.
But it is easy to
forget': Sharansky
said at the beginning
of the march at the
Auschwitz concen-
tration camp on
Monday, Holocaust
Natan
Remembrance Day.
Sharansky
"It is easy to say that
the lessons of Auschwitz have been
learned. It is easy to say those two
magic words: Never again. The hard
part is giving those words meaning.
That is our challenge. That is your
challenge."
Participants from 45 countries, not
all Jewish, took part in the march.
Black ribbons were attached to Israeli
flags carried during the march as a
demonstration of sympathy to the
Polish people on the loss of their
president and many of the country's
leaders in a plane crash on Saturday.
Israel's top-ranked tennis star, Shahar

Pe'er, joined the march accompanied by
her grandmother, who is a survivor of
Auschwitz.
A siren sounded throughout Israel
for two minutes on Monday morning in
honor of the victims of the Holocaust.
Following the siren, memorial cer-
emonies began at Yad Vashem, where
wreaths were laid, and at the Knesset,
which held a ceremony during which
the names of Holocaust survivors were
read.

Student Zionists Attacked
OTTAWA/JTA — Two students at
Ottawa's Carleton University were
attacked with what they say was a
machete for their being Zionists.
The roommates were attacked early
April 5 as they left a bar near the uni-
versity by a group of about 10 men
yelling in English and Arabic that they
were Zionists and Jews, according to
reports in the Canadian media.
Nick Bergamini, 22, vice president
of the Carleton University Students'
Association, is not Jewish, but is a stu-
dent supporter of Israel, according to
the National Post. Mark Kilbanov, 20,
is an Israeli engineering student at the
university.
Kilbanov told the newspaper that
the machete narrowly missed hitting
the back of Bergamini's head, but that
the men outran their attackers.
"If you are from the right wing or
are a supporter of Israel, it gets around
pretty quickly because Carleton is
one of the worst campuses for having
a division between Palestinian and
Jewish students. It is a really polarized
campus between left and right, Jewish
and Arab students': Kilbanov told the
National Post.

Vatican's Anti-Semitic
Remark
ROME/JTA — A Vatican official
apologized for comparing criticism
directed at the Catholic Church over
a widespread pedophilia scandal to
anti-Semitic attacks on Jews.
"If — and it was not my intention
to do so — I hurt the sensitivities of
Jews and victims of pedophilia, I am
truly sorry and I ask for forgiveness:'
the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa, the
preacher of the papal household, said
in an interview published Sunday in
the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Jewish groups had slammed
Cantalamessa for his remarks made
during a Good Friday service in St.
Peter's Basilica attended by Pope
Benedict XVI. The pope had not been
aware of what he was going to say dur-

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