{"id":23806,"date":"2020-01-02T20:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jww.org\/?p=23806"},"modified":"2020-01-02T20:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:05:56","slug":"thank-you-for-a-life-changing-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/thank-you-for-a-life-changing-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you for a life-changing year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have just closed the book on what was, in so many ways, an extremely difficult year. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jww.org\/conflict-areas\/burma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rohingya<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jww.org\/conflict-areas\/sudan\/darfur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darfuris<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jww.org\/conflict-areas\/syria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Syrians<\/a>, as well as the people of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jww.org\/conflict-areas\/drc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jww.org\/conflict-areas\/uyghurs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uyghurs in China<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 all survivors of genocides and mass atrocities&nbsp;\u2013 have needed our support more than ever. We have all also&nbsp;been deeply alarmed by multiple&nbsp;murderous outbursts of ethnically based hatred here in the U.S. The light amidst the darkness is that&nbsp;throughout the past year you have made clear that you care and want to make a difference.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We at Jewish World Watch are humbled by your willingness to come together in&nbsp;speaking out and by your generosity in supporting the work we do. You mean the world to us \u2013&nbsp;<\/span><strong>You make Jewish World Watch&#8217;s lifesaving work possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you so much from the JWW Board and staff.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We also enjoy hearing from you! Please don&#8217;t hesitate to contact us for any reason \u2013 you can reach us anytime at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:info@jww.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">info@jww.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As we move into 2020, we will continue to ask you to join us by raising your voices in combating hatred for the &#8220;other.&#8221; Please know that we are honored to stand with you, side by side.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to see many of you at this year\u2019s Walk&nbsp;to End Genocide \u2013 for the Save the Date and Walk information,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jww.org\/take-action\/events\/walk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you a happy and healthy new year,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-21912 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/jww.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/susan-signature-150x61.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"61\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Susan Freudenheim<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Executive Director<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have just closed the book on what was, in so many ways, an extremely difficult year. The&nbsp;Rohingya,&nbsp;Darfuris&nbsp;and&nbsp;Syrians, as well as the people of the&nbsp;Democratic Republic of the Congo&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Uyghurs in China&nbsp;\u2013 all survivors of genocides and mass atrocities&nbsp;\u2013 have needed our support more than ever. We have all also&nbsp;been deeply alarmed by multiple&nbsp;murderous outbursts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,188],"tags":[160,416,433],"class_list":["post-23806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-message-from-our-executive-director","category-news-features","tag-jewish-world-watch","tag-thank-you","tag-walk-to-end-genocide","category-165","category-188","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jww.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}