"Health care workers, humanitarian workers and journalists are being killed, injured and imprisoned in massive numbers. Human rights agencies have documented widespread torture and abuse of prisoners, including sexual abuse, throughout a network of torture camps."

"As we contemplate this inhuman status quo, it occurs to me that this Rosh Hashanah, the broken sound of the shofar is more than a mere call to accounting. It is a broken wail of grief — and a desperate moral challenge. This year the shofar calls out to us in no uncertain terms: We Charge Genocide."

"Please note that this unspeakable litany is not a review of the past year. It is a description of a nightmare that continues in this very moment, with no end in sight."