David Harris on the Radio

A Helping Hand in New Orleans David A. Harris Executive Director, American Jewish Committee Week of February 14, 2006 David Harris delivers regular radio commentaries on the CBS radio network, which can be heard nationally just before the Osgood File on more than 400 stations. All of the commentaries are available at www.ajc.org. Click here to listen to this week's message. The following is the full text of this week's broadcast: Later this week, a group of young people will head to New Orleans. They're part of an American Jewish Committee effort to help rebuild lives-and hope-in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. We've also reached out to Dillard and Xavier universities, two church-affiliated, historical African American schools. We've reached out to St. Clement's of Rome, a Catholic church badly damaged in the storm, and to other houses of worship, including several synagogues. In doing so, we're making a statement about the kind of world in which we want to live. Frenzied mobs in the Middle East burn Danish flags and torch buildings. Saudi schools teach contempt for non-Muslims. Radical Islamic preachers call for the beheading of so-called infidels. That world is not our world. In our world, what unites us is far more important than what divides us. That's why we're offering a helping hand in New Orleans. While some would seek to destroy, we seek to build. To us, that's humanity's highest calling. This is David Harris of the American Jewish Committee.

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