Serena Oberstein is the executive director of Jewish World Watch, bringing help and healing to survivors of mass atrocities around the globe and seeking to inspire people of all faiths and cultures to join the ongoing fight against genocide. She has spent nearly two decades working toward a more just society on the local, state, federal and international level in the nonprofit and public sectors.
While we honor our past, including this weekend during Tisha B’Av, we must also apply lessons that can light a path too often worn by human rights violations, global strife and an increasingly painful reality for women worldwide.
Today, the Rohingya people in Burma suffer at the hands of dictators bent on genocide amid a world awash in indifference.
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