Yom HaShoah 15 articles

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Yom HaShoah, the 27th of Nissan is set aside to remember the atrocities of the Holocaust

Halacha at the Time of the Shoah
Halacha at the Time of the Shoah
May 1, 2022
By Rabbi Shai Finkelstein
Yom HaShoah Message from OU Executive Vice President Rabbi Moshe Hauer
Yom HaShoah Message from OU Executive Vice President Rabbi...
As we celebrate the merging of two people into one under the chuppah, we recognize our fractured relationship with God by breaking a glass. As we put the finishing touches on...
Apr 28, 2022
By Rabbi Moshe Hauer
Each of Us Must Never Forget the Holocaust
Each of Us Must Never Forget the Holocaust
From an address by Rabbi Sacks marking Yom HaShoah in 2000 The Holocaust has become more than a Jewish tragedy. It has become, for the West, a defining symbol of man’s...
Apr 27, 2022
By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Yom HaShoah: Interviews with Three Jewish Martyrs
Yom HaShoah: Interviews with Three Jewish Martyrs
On a wintry October day in 1941, the Jews of the Kovno ghetto were assembled at an Umshlagplatz (gathering place), about to be deported to their eventual death. As word spread...
Apr 25, 2022
By Rabbi Moshe Taragin
The Warsaw Ghetto: Then and Now – A Virtual Walking Tour
The Warsaw Ghetto: Then and Now – A Virtual...
Apr 9, 2021
By Rabbi Shimshon Nadel
The Controversial Creation of Yom HaShoah
The Controversial Creation of Yom HaShoah
Apr 8, 2021
By Rabbi Shimshon Nadel
The Establishment of Yom HaShoah
The Establishment of Yom HaShoah
Note: Unfortunately the last few minutes of audio were not recorded. We ended by looking at a passage from Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg, who himself had survived the horrors of the...
Apr 22, 2020
By Rabbi Shimshon Nadel
Yom HaShoah 5768
Yom HaShoah 5768
We don’t necessarily have to come to terms with and understand everything that occurs; we have to realize that Hashem guides historic events. Rabbi Shalom Hammer’s Sleepless Sermon for Yom HaShoah
Sep 10, 2017
By Rabbi Shalom Hammer
Fragments of Memory
Fragments of Memory
“We will never forget you, we will never cease to mourn you, we will not let you down.” At the end of the book of Genesis, Joseph makes one deeply poignant...
Jun 11, 2017
By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Iasi: A Stain on History, an Ache in My Heart
Iasi: A Stain on History, an Ache in My...
My late father (z”l) was a special man – scholarly, pious, wise. A man whose eyes spoke of understandings unfathomable to me when I was young and whose strength and full...
Apr 24, 2017
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran

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