Mass. Rabbis Call on Turkey, U.S., and Israel to Recognize Genocide

Massachusetts Board of Rabbis
The following statement was issued by the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis on the occasion of the Centennial of the Armenian Genocide.
The Massachusetts Board of Rabbis reaches out in solidarity and sorrow to Armenians everywhere on the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. We acknowledge the pain carried through generations of a people decimated, the psychic scars transmitted, the truncated branches of family trees yet to regenerate. We hear the echoes of pleading voices long stilled that call us to remember, to learn, to witness. We call for universal recognition of what happened on the plains of Anatolia, the 1915-23 atrocities carried out by the Ottoman government. Only truth shall be surety for the timeless cry of “Never Again.”