Send Page to a Friend Statement on Armenian Genocide 8/18/07 -- The following statement was released by the JCRC on behalf of Nancy K. Kaufman, Executive Director and James Segel, President of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston concerning the current controversy in Boston between the ADL and Armenian Community: The Jewish Community has had a warm and collegial relationship with the Armenian community in greater Boston for many years. The Jewish Community Relations council of Greater Boston released the following statement on April 21st 2005 in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the genocide. "Today we join together with the Armenian community to remember the darkest chapter of Armenian history, when, in 1915, the Ottoman Empire initiated a policy of genocide that continued until 1922. More than one and a half million Armenian men, women and children were systematically murdered and the survivors scattered around the world. The Armenian genocide represented a failure of the international community to intervene aginst the worst possible crime, the destruction of a people. We must never forget the Armenian genocide and maintain our guard against those who deny its occurrence." In light of the current controversy between the ADL and the Armenian community, we stand by that statement and applaued the N.E. Regional chapter of the ADL and its Director, Andrew Tarsy, for their bold and unprecedented action of standing up to their national body. We stand with them and in support of the local Armenian community which has always recognized the Holocaust and been with us each and every year to commemorate it.