{"id":33114,"date":"2017-03-10T13:02:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T13:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/world-values-network-to-honor-rwandan-president\/"},"modified":"2017-03-14T08:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T08:06:05","slug":"world-values-network-to-honor-rwandan-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/world-values-network-to-honor-rwandan-president\/","title":{"rendered":"World Values Network to honor Rwandan president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Paul Kagame, president of the Republic of Rwanda, will receive the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson award for Outstanding Friendship with the Jewish People from the World Values Network. It will be presented at the WVN\u2019s annual gala on May 21 at Cipriani in Manhattan.}<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kagame, president of the Republic of Rwanda, will receive the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson award for Outstanding Friendship with the Jewish People from the World Values Network. It will be presented at the WVN\u2019s annual gala on May 21 at Cipriani in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognizes President Kagame\u2019s position as one of the world\u2019s foremost fighters against genocide as well as Rwanda\u2019s productive relations with Israel and its connection to the global Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame is credited with ending the 1994 genocide against Tutsi which caused the deaths of more than one million people.<\/p>\n<p>The World Values Network, founded and led by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, promotes universal values and champions the democratic values represented by the United States and the State of Israel in mainstream and international media. Together with world leaders, it tackles pressing issues through global media, debates, panels, forums, and lectures at venues worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The WVN places a special emphasis on genocide education and prevention. In 2013 the World Values Network launched the Champions of Jewish Values International Awards gala to recognize people who strive to affect society positively.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18690 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-1369-f8f6c.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach (first from left) and Elie Wiesel ( second from right) in a talk organized by World Values Network in September 2013:Photo Village Urugwiro\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Jewish Standard <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Paul Kagame, president of the Republic of Rwanda, will receive the Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson award for Outstanding Friendship with the Jewish People from the World Values Network. It will be presented at the WVN\u2019s annual gala on May 21 at Cipriani in Manhattan.} Paul Kagame, president of the Republic of Rwanda, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[2811],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-jewish-standard"],"bylines":[{"id":2811,"name":"Jewish Standard","slug":"jewish-standard","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2811,"name":"Jewish Standard","slug":"jewish-standard","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33114"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33114"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}