Rally for Darfur in Jerusalem

Its finnally over...or really it just started.
The campeign to end the Genocide in Darfur from Israel.
Together with some friends, I started TAG, Talmidim Against Genocide, as a way of raising awareness about Darfur in Israel.
On sept 17th we had our first rally. Check it out on http://www.dayfordarfur.org/Events/Jerusalem_Israel.htm

so while I was expecting maybe 30 people, we got over 200!

And this was only planned in three days. I litteraly got the permit on thursday and only then did we start getting the word out about the rally.
I took a lot of sunday going to Ramat Gan to buy a megaphone becuase of bad directions abnout how to get there, but that gave me an oppertunity to learn my morning Seder on the bus and plan my speech on the way back.

This is a write up of the rally by Ari Perlow

On Sunday night, designated as the Global Day For Darfur, a rally was held in Jerusalem protesting against the Genocide in Darfur. The rally was organised by Talmidim Against Genocide (TAG), an organisation created by overseas students spending the year studying in seminaries and yeshivot in Israel, with over 200 participants from many seminaries and yeshivot as well as universities.

Organisers of the rally had duel aims of publicising the genocide and espousing Global Day For Darfur’s goals of increasing Security, Humanitarian Aid and total implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement.

The Rally consisted of a program of speeches, singing, chanting of psalms/prayers and ended with the recitation of Ma’ariv and the singing of Hatikva. During the evening, speakers focused on the aims of Global Day For Darfur, an update on the situation and the obligation of Jews, as victims of the Holocaust, to fulfil the pledge of “never again.”

Many participants noted that they were shocked by the number of passers-by who asked "מי זה דרפור?"(Who is Darfur?) However, the atmosphere of the event was undeniably uplifting with one participant from Sydney, Australia noting that the rally “renewed his faith in religious youth.”