Posts Tagged: Yom Hazikaron Israel
The Jewish Calendar: Sanctifying Time in a Fractured World
Time doesn’t always move the way we expect it to. Sometimes it blurs -- with days stretching endlessly, their differences erased. Sometimes, everything happens at...
The Monumental Importance of Yom Hazikaron
JNS.org - This year, more than most, Jews internationally need to commemorate Yom Hazikaron. Israel’s Day of Remembrance was created more than 70 years ago with...
Israeli Memorial Day and Post-Traumatic Growth
JNS.org - For some of us, this is a whole year we don’t want to remember. A year of COVID-19, with many people sick and...
On Israel’s Memorial Day, One Man’s Quest to Channel the Trauma of Terror Victims Into Something Positive
In 2002, Jacob Kimchy's father died in a Hamas suicide bombing in his hometown of Rishon LeZion. Thirteen years later Kimchy is still struggling with...
Yom HaZikaron: What it Means to Lose a Soldier
JNS.org - Some 22,000 Israeli soldiers have died since the establishment of the Jewish state, including 40 soldiers between March 2013 and March 2014,...
