10 Lessons
Holocaust Memorial Day BETWEEN YOM HASHOA & YOM HAZIKARON
The two "heaviest" days of the year in Israel are "Yom HaShoah" and "Yom HaZikaron". There's a special feeling when not only does your school commemorate them, but an entire country stops in solidarity, standing at attention for the siren. Nevertheless there are several significant differences symbolized by the week differentiating between the two.
Yom Hakaddish Haklali From Destruction to Revival
Translated by Hillel Fendel
Rav Tzvi Yehuda Hakohen Kook, saw the terrible destruction of the Shoah in the context of the great construction of the Redemption. While the Exile was being all but destroyed, he Nation of Israel was being built up in its homeland.
IDF Memorial Day The Pain and the Pride
Israel is a roller-coaster, a thrill ride; We are currently in the "sandwich," in the segment between the twin triumphs of our glorious redemption from Egypt, and "Exodus 1948," when we re-established ourselves as a sovereign country.
Holocaust Memorial Day Jewish revenge
We cannot kill all of our enemies nor punish all of those who rise against us. But in our existence and continued intellectual, physical and spiritual development do we refute all of their hateful, false accusations and nefarious plans.
Holocaust Memorial Day Holocaust and Heroism Memorial Day
Israel's Holocaust and Heroism Memorial Day on 27 Nisan ought to be dedicated to the promotion of the "Jewish family." Certainly the last request of the six million Holocaust martyrs must have been that the Jewish people should persevere and thrive.
Holocaust Memorial Day Lessons of the Holocaust
The solution to the anti-Semitism will come when all the Jews immigrate to The Land of Israel.
Holocaust Memorial Day Our Own Flesh and Blood
Grappling with the Holocaust
The deaths of the Holocaust confront us in such monstrous proportions that the mind is overwhelmed. Our own flesh and blood. It is impossible to consider the Holocaust without tears.
