NEW CITY — Lighting candles on Yom HaShoah honors the memory of six million Jews and millions of other people murdered amid the Nazi atrocities. Rockland residents will mark the yearly ...

Each year on Yom HaShoah, we remember the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. We remember in synagogues and ceremonies, in classrooms and public squares. We light candles, recite names ...

Prior to the Yom HaShoah observance, the Savannah Jewish Federation sponsored the annual The Sherry Dolgoff Holocaust Art & Writing Contest for Chatham County middle and high school students. The ...

Generations gathered together for Yom Hashoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year marks 80 years since the end of the genocide that killed six million Jews. Francheska Gelbart ...

Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is one of the most important days for Jewish communities worldwide. In Howard County, Temple Isaiah is hosting an event for the occasion, marking 80 ...

Early arrivals at the Yom HaShoah observance at the Firedman JCC on Thursday had a chance to peruse the posters in an exhibit that highlights stories of women of the Holocaust. The exhibit will ...

And as I looked at them, I realized: The reason I feel such empathy for the 238 men whom the U.S. deported to El Salvador, despite almost no evidence of criminality, is Yom HaShoah. When I think ...

Westchester County's annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration for Holocaust Remembrance Day was held Thursday, April 24, at the Garden of Remembrance on Martine Avenue in White Plains. The mid-day outdoor ...

“Tonight at sundown, we join with the Jewish community here in Ontario and all over the world to mark the solemn occasion of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance ...

Emotional mechanisms send orders to my cognitive mechanisms to shut up. The week between Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) and Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel’s Fallen Soldiers and ...

This year, Yom HaShoah fell on Wednesday, April 23. It is also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, the commemorative day for the Jewish community varies each year, following the Hebrew calendar.

Unlike these biblically commanded remembrances, the observance of Yom HaShoah ve-laG’vurah (Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day) which takes place on the 27th day of Nisan, was mandated into ...