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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has amended the memorial prayer for the dead recited on Yom Hashoah to include Jews in Arab countries.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has amended the memorial prayer for the dead recited on Yom Hashoah to include Jews in Arab countries.
Yom HaShoah: Remembering for Tomorrow. Season 2021 Episode 1 | 32m 12s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Stories of Holocaust survivors interwoven with music, candle lighting and prayers.
Will lighting six candles and reciting "Kaddish" rouse the emotions and intellect of generations of Jews who never met a Holocaust survivor?
For Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum, the theme of this year’s Yom Hashoah commemoration, which was planned prior to Oct. 7, has taken on a new meaning.
This year, as the Israel-Hamas war enters its seventh month, the day takes on added symbolism: It is the first Yom HaShoah since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, which was the deadliest day for Jews since the ...
Nationwide, synagogues are staging events featuring candle lighting, reciting the names of Holocaust victims, watching videos of survivors’ accounts, conducting Shoah seders and reading prayer ...
Yom Hashoah, known in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a day where Jewish communities in Colorado, and around the world, gather in prayer and light a yellow candle to remember the 6 ...
Yom HaShoah ensures that memories of those who were killed in the Holocaust live on and that they didn’t die in vain, ... “This prayer is so ancient, it’s not even Hebrew.
With Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) taking place from April 7-8, South Florida Jewish organizations will remember the 6 millions Jews who perished in the tragedy and honor those who surviv… ...
For Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum, the theme of this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration, which was planned prior to Oct. 7, has taken on a new meaning.