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Yom HaShoah is one of the most important events in the Hebrew calendar. Paying tribute to those who have been killed in the course of Holocaust, lots of memorial events take place all over the country ...
This is Israel’s 77th Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day) — just 77 years old, yet carrying millennia of history on its shoulders. While Yom Ha’atzmaut resonates across the Jewish world, in Israel it is ...
Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, is observed on April 29-30 this year, paying tribute to those who gave their lives to build and protect the modern State of Israel. It is a day of intense ...
Israel honors the memory of its fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism on Wednesday with a series of official ceremonies marking Yom HaZikaron, Israel's Memorial Day. Starting at 8:30 am this ...
As I watch Israel burn at the beginning of Yom HaAtzmaut, a day that celebrates Israel’s independence and unleashes joy throughout the country, it struck me that Jew-haters can be quite intentional.
In Hebrew, the day is called Yom HaZikaron. Last night at 8:00 p.m. we heard a one-minute siren and today, at 11:00 a.m., we heard a two-minute siren. At the sound of the siren, Israelis throughout ...
(Read more on the topic from eJewishPhilanthropy’s Judah Ari Gross here.) And the country’s military — the leadership of which has almost entirely turned over since last Yom HaZikaron — finds itself ...
Yom Ha’atzmaut is the day we celebrate this divine gift—the miraculous return to the Land and the establishment of a Jewish state within it after more than two millennia of exile. Yet the seco ...
The officials were told of their immediate termination from the council in an email Tuesday morning, days after Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, according to the New York Times.
Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, is a solemn occasion dedicated to honoring the lives of those who sacrificed themselves for the nation’s security and freedom. This year, as every year ...
Rabbi Talia Laster, Hillel’s campus rabbi, started the event by introducing the purpose of Yom HaShoah, a day of remembrance and celebration of the Jewish people’s strength throughout the ...
WASHINGTON – On Yom HaZikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, and ahead of Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day, Amb. Ronald S. Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, released the following ...