Yom HaShoah – Israel Remembers

While the international community commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 (the day of liberation from death camps), Israel remembers the lost victims of the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah, which tonight at sundown. It is a very solemn day, and one in which Israelis stop to reflect on that horrible event and mourn the loss …

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Remembering 6 Million Jews (Part 1)

  "If we wish to live and to bequeath life to our offspring, if we believe that we are to pave the way to the future, then we must first of all not forget." ~Professor Ben Zion Dinur, Yad Vashem, 1956 Happy Lord's Day, my friends!  I'm glad you're here and I hope you are …

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Meeting One of Schindler’s Jews

Greetings again from Jerusalem! What a glorious time in the land of Israel!  I wouldn't trade this week for anything, and am so blessed to be here!  This morning, we were met with rain, which altered our plans somewhat.  But this Phoenician will never complain about rain! As I reported yesterday, one of our classmates …

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