Yom HaShoah 16 articles

In 1995 Rabbi Sacks recorded a pre-Rosh Hashanah program for the BBC during a visit to Auschwitz. This animated video brings new visual illustration to an excerpt from the program and asks...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

“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...