eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
2 August 2019
In Honor of the Muslim World League’s Secretary General, Sheikh Dr. Mohammed al-Issa, who ensured Jewish representation in Sri Lanka’s National Conference on Peace, Harmony, and Coexistence at Colombo by bringing a delegation from the American Sephardi Federation composed of distinguished ASF Board Member and Hakham, Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, Elise Abadie, ASF Executive Director Jason Guberman, and national security & human rights lawyer and analyst Irina Tsukerman. Coming at a time when the country is still in a state of emergency following the barbaric Easter Sunday terrorist attacks, the Colombo Conference re-affirmed and amplified the message of the It Stops Now Agreement to fight hate, bigotry, and fanaticism, which was signed on Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom HaShoah) by the Muslim World League, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, and the American Sephardi Federation
