Description:
This program will serve as an interactive, immersive discourse and educate participants to be aware of the dangers of intolerance, racism and to be an advocate for global peace and equality for all.  Reports and information will be shared from scholars, in the fields of antisemitism, foreign policy and counterterrorism as well as first-hand accounts of genocide committed against the Jews during World War II, as recounted by Holocaust Survivors. An in-depth discussion will ensue on discriminatory practices, genocide and ethnic cleansing with the rise of the Far-Right Populist Movement in Europe and the causes and consequences of the radical right as it fuels antisemitic tropes and draws on the pogroms of the past to threaten civil society. 

This program is a follow-up to the program held on April 19, 2023, The Sound of the Siren: Commemorative Reflection on the History of the Holocaust and the Rise of Global Antisemitism. Recording of the 2023 program is available here.  

Opening Remarks:
Susan Kohlmann, President, New York City Bar Association

Speakers:
Yfat Barak-Cheney,  World Jewish Congress, Director of International Affairs and Director of Technology and Human Rights  
Philip Berkowitz, Littler Mendelson, P.C. 
Ambassador Gilad Erdan, Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations 
Professor Steven Goldberg, Director of Education, Holocaust & Human Rights Education Center
Dan Karson, Member, New York City Bar European Affairs Committee, Author of report on the history and rise of antisemitism in Europe
Trevor Norwitz, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz, LLP, The Times of Israel
Deborah Rosenbloom, Jewish Women International
Asia Shindelman, Holocaust Survivor; Speaker at the UN
Sammi Steigmann, Holocaust Survivor

Moderator: 
Sophia Murashkovsky Romma, Co-Chair of the United Nations Committee/Touro University School of Law