Yom HaShoah 18 articles

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

Holocaust Kinot
Holocaust Kinot
Apr 30, 2025
By Rabbi Dr. Aaron Adler
Yom Hashoah: A Day of Unity
Yom Hashoah: A Day of Unity
Apr 24, 2025
By Rabbi Yisroel Juskowitz
Faith After the Holocaust
Faith After the Holocaust
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...
May 6, 2024
By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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

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