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On Sunday October 18, 2009, you helped Words of Bonds bear witness as we honored Holocaust survivors, African American slave descendants and educators at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Attendees traveled from places such as Israel, Jamaica, Washington DC, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Florida, South Carolina, and other parts of the world to pay tribute to our honorees and support the cause.. We are truly grateful to the many parents and children who sold cakes and cookies to raise funds for the event. We are thankful to everyone who attended.
We are thankful to our donors, pastors, rabbis, civic and political leaders from New York, Washington, Israel, France, Poland, and Italy; school principals, teachers, as well as our students and parents.
Our emcees, Denise Richardson and Julian Phillips, led a wonderful and exciting evening. The Noel Pointer Orchestra performed classical chamber music. Yeshiva Ateres Israel students and the Townsley Oratory Group also performed. The United States Marine Corps Color Guard presented their colors before the American, Israeli and African American national anthems were sung. Together, we sang each anthem, and it was most inspiring.
Seeing Jewish and African American children jumping double-dutch together, singing songs of inspiration together and generally uplifting all of us in the spirit of love was truly a sight to witness.
Stories were shared, honors were bestowed, and at the end of the evening we left inspired with a truly open vision that we must do whatever it takes to prevent the atrocities of slavery and the Holocaust from ever happening again.
Thank you again for being a part of this historic evening. At present, we are working to complete a documentary interviewing descendents of slaves and survivors of the Holocaust. We will keep you apprised on the progress of this important film, and we hope that you will continue to support our work.

ACKNOWLEDGING THE APPRECIATED SUPPORT

Our newest sponsor is the our Tribute’s Keynote Speaker Harley Lippman who has pledged a generous gift.

To learn how you can become a Words of Bonds sponsor, please click here.

For the biography of our latest sponsor, Lippman, please refer to the second page of our 2 page Program.

PRESS COVERAGE

For now, please enjoy the article from the Oct. 18 NY POST.

Words of Bonds at MSG
When it comes to the Holocaust and slavery in America, the rallying call to ‘Never Forget’ is one of the major themes of the Brooklyn-based non-profit School News Nationwide (SNN). The organization embraces this theme most fully through its Words of Bonds project and its Madison Square Garden event on Sunday, Oct 18, which pays tribute to Holocaust survivors, senior descendants of slaves and educators concerned with this sordid aspect of human history.
For full story, please click here.

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