LAJI News:

Los Alamos-Japan Institute (LAJI) invites the public to join Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of President Truman and LAJI Founder Dr. Judith Stauber for a conversation with Simon Wiesenthal Center Co-Founder Rabbi Abraham Cooper and writer/activist Kinue Tokudome. Hear about the current state of antisemitism, holocaust denial and perceptions of Israel in the United States and Japan today.

The talk will begin at 5 p.m. Monday, July 24.

Visit https://laji.us to register and join the conversation. Questions will be welcomed.

Rabbi Cooper is an expert on hate and terrorism, is Associate Dean and Director of Global Social AcSon for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a global Jewish human rights organization he founded with Rabbi Marvin Hier in 1977—meeting with world leaders, including Pope Francis, presidents and foreign ministers to defend the rights of the Jewish people, combat terrorism and promote multi-faith relations worldwide. A founder of the Global Forum on Anti-Semitism, Rabbi Cooper has worked extensively with Arab leaders in the Gulf States and witnessed the historic UAE/Bahrain/Israel Abraham Accords ceremony at the White House. In 2023, Rabbi Cooper was appointed Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom which tracks violations of religious freedom in 28 nations around the world.

Kinue Tokudome is the author of a Holocaust interview book, “Courage to Remember”, a children’s book on Raoul Wallenberg (co-authored with Rabbi Cooper), “Reconciliation with Former American POWs: Another History of the U.S.- Japan War (in Japanese)”, Japanese translation of Raul Hilberg’s “The Politics of Memory” and Rabbi Kalman Samuels’ “Dreams Never Dreamed”.