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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — Wednesday was Yom Hashoah, known in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's a day when Jewish Communities around the world gather in prayer and light a yellow ...
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 ...
Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors in the UK have said they feel a burden of responsibility to speak out against Israel’s continuing war in Gaza as Jewish communities mark Yom ...
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 ...
The 2025 theme for Yom HaShoah is 'Standing Up Against Injustice: Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue' On Yom HaShoah, sponsors distribute copies of the U.S. Constitution 'to remind ourselves and ...
“This is the closest Cory Booker will get to experiencing Yom Kippur,” tweeted Sami Sage, the co-founder of Betches Media, in one representative post. As Jews do on Yom Kippur, Booker fasted ...
People see Thokbor Majak on campus at San Diego State, see his 7-foot frame carrying a book bag on the way to class, and ask him where he’s from. He tells them South Sudan. They ask what it’s ...
Yom left the Nyack district before her contract was up. Yom's separation agreement with Nyack stated "certain disagreements have arisen between the board and Yom." Susan Yom, whose rocky tenure in ...
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past a mosque in the Old City of Jeruslam at the start of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur in Jerusalem on October 11, 2024. AFP via Getty Images On Friday ...
Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, will soon mark the end of the Jewish "High Holidays." Considered the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur is the culmination of a 10-day ...
Yom Kippur is a day of forgiveness, but it is not “The Day of Forgiveness.” The word “forgiveness” in Hebrew is “סְלִיחָה/selicha” or ...
Yom Kippur is the most important day of the year for the Jewish faith and ends the 10-day period of repentance and reflection known as the "High Holidays," which began with Rosh Hashanah. Yom ...