{"id":51672,"date":"2019-11-08T10:26:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=51672"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:26:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:26:14","slug":"senate-to-vote-on-kristallnacht-memorial-resolution-condemning-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/senate-to-vote-on-kristallnacht-memorial-resolution-condemning-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate to vote on Kristallnacht memorial resolution condemning anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 The U.S. Senate will vote on a resolution commemorating Kristallnacht that notes the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, which was introduced by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-CT., recalls the pogroms that erupted on Nov. 9-10, 1938, in Germany and Austria and marked the first wide-scale use of violence by the Nazis against Jews.<\/p>\n<p>It proposes that the Senate recognize the Kristallnacht anniversary and pay tribute \u201cto the more than 6,000,000 Jewish people killed during the Holocaust and the families affected by the tragedy.\u201d<br \/>\nBut it also lists evidence of the growth of anti-Semitism in the United States, as well as Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhereas, while the United States has made progress towards addressing anti-Semitism, recent events demonstrate that much work remains,\u201d the text states, noting the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2018 and the shooting at the Chabad of Poway in the San Diego area in April.<\/p>\n<p>The draft resolution further states that Senate \u201ccontinues to support United States efforts&nbsp;to address the horrible legacy of the Holocaust and combat manifestations of anti-Semitism domestically and globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kristallnacht \u201cteaches mankind how hate can proliferate and erode societies,\u201d it says, \u201cand serves as a reminder that the United States must advance global efforts to ensure that barbarism and mass murder never occur again.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Senate%20to%20vote%20on%20Kristallnacht%20memorial%20resolution%20condemning%20anti-Semitism\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4240,25],"tags":[8790,8795,8910,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51673,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51672\/revisions\/51673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}