(JNS) – Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, started at sundown on Wednesday night with the annual ceremony at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.
In 1985, as a rabbinical student in Jerusalem, I attended Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) observances at Yad Va-Shem, where I heard memorial addresses by Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Avraham Shapira and Sefardi Chief Rabbi (Rishon...
Yom HaShoah, an annual day dedicated to the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, was memorialized at the National World War II Museum this past Monday, May 6, a day that roughly coincides with...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Joe Biden aimed straight at American Jewish anxieties of the moment in a speech commemorating the Holocaust, pledging to keep alive the memory of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacres in the face of waves...
During Yom HaShoah and through out these days of remembrance, we mourn the six million Jews who were murdered during the horror of the Holocaust — as well as the millions of Roma and Sinti, Slavs,...
Today, on Yom HaShoah, we remember the victims of the greatest crime of man against man – the young, the old, the innocent, the million and a half children, starved, shot, given lethal injections,...
The featured speaker at this year’s Yom HaShoah Memorial Program at the Uptown Jewish Community Center will be James Waller, the inaugural Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College in New Hampshire. Waller’s...
(JTA) — Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have produced a documentary about a Holocaust survivor that will debut on PBS on Tuesday, timed to Yom Hashoah, or Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
