Posts Tagged: Yom HaShoah
Gal Gadot Hosts Gathering for Yom HaShoah With Youngest Holocaust Survivor Saved by Oskar Schindler
Israeli actress Gal Gadot hosted at her California home a small gathering with a local Holocaust survivor who shared her life story and experiences during...
Holocaust Remembrance Day: Israel Comes to a Standstill as Sirens Blare
i24 News - At exactly 10:00 am on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the state of Israel stood still to observe the memory of the six million...
Days That Define a Nation
JNS.org – These are heady and heavy days in Israel. Starting with Passover, we relive our national birth as the Jewish people and the great...
Why Just Remembering the Past Is Not Enough
Late last year, someone sent me the link to an editorial piece published in the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s primary English-language media outlet. “For the sake...
‘Memory Is Not a Thing of the Past’: Israeli, German Leaders Mark Yom HaShoah, Recite Names of Holocaust Victims
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Germany's Bundestag President Bärbel Bas on Thursday recited names of Holocaust victims and lit memorial candles as part of...
Rutgers Jewish Fraternity Egged During Yom HaShoah Ceremony for Second Straight Year, After House Targeted by Anti-Israel Protesters
A Jewish fraternity house at Rutgers University was egged during an annual ceremony held to recite the names of Holocaust victims, days after it was...
Holocaust Survivors Join Virtual March of Living Ceremony at Auschwitz
The March of the Living, an annual event that brings together Holocaust survivors and family members at the former Auschwitz death camp, was held online...
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Slammed for Failing to Mention Jews in Holocaust Remembrance Day Tweet
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) -- who has faced antisemitism accusations in the past -- was criticized on social media on Wednesday after tweeting a statement...
Let Us Remember What the Survivors Can’t Forget
JNS.org - Holocaust survivors do not need annual ceremonies to remind them of the Nazi atrocities that they endured or of the family members that...
Haifa University Infuses Holocaust Commemoration With Entrepreneurial Spirit
JNS.org - Sand inspired Rivka Baum to tell the story of the Holocaust. What may sound like an odd inspiration became anything but when Baum...
The Chabad Model for Perpetuating Memories of the Holocaust
JNS.org - Within the next several years, Holocaust remembrance will enter into a challenging new phase: continuing the memory of one of the most heinous...
Sens. Cruz, Kaine Introduce Resolution Condemning ‘All Forms’ of Antisemitism
JNS.org - Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a resolution on Thursday condemning “all forms” of anti-Semitism to mark Yom Hashoah, or...
March of the Living Transcends Distinctions to Provide a Deeply Meaningful Jewish Experience
JNS.org - There are no words for the experience of commemorating the horrific deaths, together with Holocaust survivors, on the sacred grounds of the Birkenau extermination...
Jewish Teen’s Holocaust Doom Dramatized on Instagram
Hoping to enliven fading Holocaust memories, Israeli entrepreneurs have dramatized the plight of a Jewish teenager murdered by the Nazis by imagining her documenting her final...
