Good evening. My name is arthur hessel. Im Vice President of the haberman institute for jewish studies. I want to welcome those you who are here in person with us. Its israel in rockville, maryland. And to those of you numbering at least 500 who were with on zoom, youve joined us from all over the country. Our normal lectures have about 30 states represented, several canadian provinces and people scattered the rest of the world. I also want to welcome the cspan cameras covering a haberman for the first time. For those of you who are new to haberman, a few things about us. For the past 40 years, weve sponsored programs chosen to provide adults with encounters with jewish thought history and culture before covid changed everything. Our programs were inperson and our parties events all from the washington, d. C. Metropolitan area. Today our reach is much broader through zoom. You can learn more about it on the are looking at website. Easy to remember haberman institute dot org. This is ou
We have our next speaker, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the u. S. , ambassador oksana markarova. Thank you very much. Thanks so much. Good morning to everyone. Thank you for having me here, and to lie for your excellent work. During this very difficult 610 days, almost 611, ukraine has been through the full phase of or in ukraine, they were that started the war that started and quickly turned into a conflict, a war. We have lost 14,000 people actually before the fullfledged war started. Still, it was very contained, contained in eastern ukraine, in crimea, and this experience for the past 610 days is, frankly, something we have never had before when we read about it during the world war ii. During this 600 days just going through the list with our people back home and the defense ministry, we have seen we have already lost during this war 70 journalistic voices. 70, 70. That is an unbelievable loss of not only talent but something that should not even happen during the wars. The rules th
That france and iraqi officials had, special help to facilitate the movement of thousands of azeri in the country, faraji said that very Good Measures were also taken to help clear the traffic on the countrys major roads. And there was a place for foreign pilgrims to come special thanks to the Hosseini Arbaeen unity table ceremony was held in piranshahr, west azerbaijan. In this ceremony , which was held with the efforts of the ahl alsunni procession of piranshahr, more than 10 thousand people were present. Here in piranshahr , there is a banquet tonight. Whats up with hossein Muhammad Hossein . The feeling of love is that all the muslims gathered at the same table and imam hussain side by side, we are all drowning in sin, and hussain is the supporter of the prophets family and the ahlul bayt. The pilgrims of hosseinis arbaeen were the pages of imam hosseins uprising and politeness. I gave you the table of unity it was held and blessed means it really brought blessings for me. For exam
We have our next speaker, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the u. S. , thank you. Thank you. The floor is yours. All right. Amb. Markarova good morning to everyone. Thank you for having me here and thank you for your excellent work. During this very difficult 610 days, almost 611, we are in a full phase of work in ukraine. Quickly, it turned into a conflict, a war. We were almost 40,000 people before the war started, but still, it was contained in eastern ukraine, and crimea, and this experience we have had the past 610 days is something we have never had before when we read about it during world war ii. During these 600 days, we were just going through dealing with our people back home and the defense generalists with me here. We have seen 70 journalists reported lost. That is something that should not even be happening during the wars. But therul but the rules are not under discussion, even with journalists, so runs of mind, when we found him, he still had his press vest on him, so they k
Only because of a principal, because i didnt like the rhetoric coming out of the administration at the time. Host which administration was that . Caller the obamabiden administration. I served my country honorably and this is a right that all americans have. We leave difficulty covering the war in ukraine and afghanistan. Thank you very much. We have our next speaker, the Ukrainian Ambassador to the u. S. , ambassador oksana markarova. Thank you very much. Thanks so much. Good morning to everyone. Thank you for having me here, and to lie for your excellent work. During this very difficult 610 days, almost 611, ukraine has been through the full phase of or in ukraine, they were that started the war that started and quickly turned into a conflict, a war. We have lost 14,000 people actually before the fullfledged war started. Still, it was very contained, contained in eastern ukraine, in crimea, and this experience for the past 610 days is, frankly, something we have never had before when