David Bedein and the Center for Near East Policy Research are the foremost researchers on the subject of UNRWA education and the training of child soldiers. Their primary scholar who translates the Arabic school books, Dr. Arnon Groiss, is probably the most knowledgeable researcher of these books. In addition David and his team go into refugee camps and literally risk their lives creating films to back up the claims of child abuse by training those under 15 years of age to be soldiers.

This event is a MUST SEE for all followers of UNRWA: Stop Teaching Hate. It deserves a huge audience. David and his colleagues have been very gracious about sharing their work with our JNGO group and we thank him for that.

UNRWA policy briefing for US Congressional Staff

1:30 PM (NYC Time), March 17, 2021

At a time when the Biden administration considers renewal of UNRWA funding, you are invited to a timely briefing to discuss UNRWA policy decisions that the US Congress will consider over the next few months. Register Now:

You are invited to join us for an Enrichment Committee program, The Path to Middle East Peace Begins in the Classroom with Dr. Joan Lurie Goldberg on Tuesday, January 12 at 7:30 pm (New York Time) on a Zoom conference. To get the link and password, please write to [email protected] with your full name and email address.

Dr. Joan Lurie Goldberg - a founder and co-chair of UNRWA: Stop Teaching Hate will be speaking on Zoom with Temple Emanuel membership, under the sponsorship of the Men’s Club, on December 6, 2020.

Please join ORT, the GW Yiddish Club, Hadassah, GW Connections, and the Residents Civic Club for a special webinar titled, ‘The Path to Peace Begins in the Classroom, But not in these classrooms…”.

Dr. Joan Lurie will be our speaker; she is currently the co-chair of the informal caucus of Jewish NGOs (JNGOs) at the United Nations. She represents the International Council of Jewish Women as a member of the organization’s UN team at the UN in New York.

Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_N-4N9wSIRAKFroMF2YLnAw

A Zoom Event sponsored by the Bergen County Section of NCJW

August 13, 2020

Join Dr. Joan Lurie as she explores the education provided to Palestinian children in UNRWA schools and explains why this education is a major obstacle to peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

An ICJW Zoom Conference Event.

Mr. David Gill, head of the German Consulate General in New York spoke to the Jewish Caucus of NGOs on February 25, 2020. The meeting was hosted by the German Consulate, 871 UN Plaza (on the west side of First Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets).

Ambassador Gill addressed the rise of anti-Semitism and what can and should be done to better educate the younger generation. There was a lively Q and A period and we had a large audience with standing room only in a conference room seating about 50.

Speaker: Dr. Joan Lurie Goldberg - a founder and co-chair of UNRWA: Stop Teaching Hate, will expose how UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) has been teaching young Palestinians to hate and kill Jews for three generations. Dr. Goldberg represents the International Council of Jewish Women (ICJW) as a member of the organization's UN team of NGO representatives.

Hewlett East Rockaway Jewish Center

We will present materials, films and sample lessons – you will learn why our mission is crucial to the future of the Middle East. To foster negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians we must end the teaching of violence and terrorism in the schools.

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Beth El Synagogue, 50 Maple Stream Road, East Windsor, NJ 08520

RSVP by Sept 9 to [email protected] or 609.443.4454

Guests are welcome. There is no cost for the program.

In theory, UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) is a wonderful, kind, uncontroversial organization. Who could argue with its stated mission that it is a relief and human development agency? The reality is far less benign, though. Over the decades, UNRWA has perpetuated the Palestinian refuge crisis, it has misappropriated hundreds of millions of dollars of well-intended donations and has contributed to the violence in Gaza and the West Bank.

Come, learn more about this issue -- and what is being done about it -- on Sunday, March 24 at 11:00 am at Lincoln Square Synagogue in a program titled Reforming UNRWA – The Master Initiative.

The speaker at the October, 2018 meeting of the Caucus of Jewish NGOs was Brooke Goldstein. The meeting was hosted by Hadassah on October 24, 2018.

Brooke emphasized UNRWA in her talk because UNRWA is a major focus of the JNGOs and of her own organization. Her approach is to advocate for Palestinian children who have the right to an incitement free education.