{"id":3635,"date":"2012-11-13T17:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T23:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2012-11-15T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T14:40:37","slug":"sharansky-weisel-address-jfna-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/sharansky-weisel-address-jfna-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharansky, Weisel address JFNA General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) &#8212; Elie Wiesel and Natan Sharansky reflected on the 1987 March on Washington for Soviet Jewry during a special plenary session of the Jewish Federations of North America&#8217;s General Assembly. The discussion Monday in Baltimore featuring Wiesel, a Nobel laureate, and Sharansky, a Soviet refusenik who planned the historic march that helped free Soviet Jewry, was moderated by Laura Bialis, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of the Foundation for Documentary Projects.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3660\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3660\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3660 lazyload\" title=\"GA wiesel and sharansky\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3660\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3660 \" title=\"GA wiesel and sharansky\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/GA-wiesel-and-sharansky-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-3660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, left, and Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Natan Sharansky at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations in North America in Baltimore discussing the Soviet Jewry movement and marking the 25th anniversary of its pinnacle event, The March on Washington, Nov. 12, 2012. (David Karp)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sharansky is now the chairman of the Executive of The Jewish Agency for Israel. During the GA, which ended Tuesday, the first-ever report on inclusion of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender within Jewish organizations in North America was released during a special reception. Michael Siegal of Cleveland was installed as the new board chair of JFNA. 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