Posts Tagged: Yom Hazikaron Israel
This Year in Israel, Yom HaZikaron Was Different
For most of my years, Yom HaZikaron (Israel's Memorial Day) has had special significance. In 1948, my father’s younger brother (one of three survivors of...
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,...
