President Obama accepts the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Source: http://www.media.cleveland.com/
When: Thursday, March 18th from 3:30-4:15 PM (PST)
Confronting Evil: A discussion about the present and the past.
This forum - first in a proposed series - will help educators connect the life lessons of the Jewish partisans with recent world events and your students' lives.
The call will discuss the remarks made by President Obama during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. In his speech, he talked about the need for a forceful response to al-Qaeda: “Evil does exist in the world…To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism—it is a recognition of history…" In addition, we will also discuss this topic from the Jewish partisans perspective. JPEF interviewed Simon Trakinski, a Jewish partisan from Lithuania, shortly after the September 11 tragedy in which he said, “When you fight evil, you can’t be a saint….how can you preserve your principles and solve the problem?” In that context Trakinski went on to say, "Evil will only recognize stronger evil."
How does a society deal with this kind of "evil"? How do people negotiate with those who want to kill them in the first place? Can there even be negotiations? These, amongst other questions will be discussed.
For more information and to register, please e-mail RSVP@jewishpartisans.org.
If you would like to suggest a future topic, please contact David Kaplan, Development Manager, via e-mail at davidk@jewishpartisans.org
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