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Remembering the Past, Protecting the Future

Remembering the Past, Protecting the Future

by Eliyahu Berkowitz | f 18, 2023 | Holocaust Remembrance Day

Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira was the Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno, Poland before World War II. Known as the ‘Children’s Rebbe,” his yeshiva (school for Torah study) was full of children who came to learn from him. Tragically, Rabbi Shapira’s only son, his...
The Tenth of Tevet: Ancient Antisemitism Remembered

The Tenth of Tevet: Ancient Antisemitism Remembered

by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 3, 2023 | Antisemitism, Chosen Nation, Tenth of Tevet, Kings, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Temple

By Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz High school was difficult for me. Not only was I an awkward teen but there was also a group of guys who, unbeknownst to me, had decided amongst themselves that they would make my life miserable. They would take turns playing pranks on me. At...
Yom Hashoah: Memorializing the Holocaust and the Heroism

Yom Hashoah: Memorializing the Holocaust and the Heroism

by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 28, 2022 | Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust remembrance day) is commemorated worldwide each year on the 27th of Nisan as a day to honor the memories of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. If the 27th of Nisan is adjacent to the Shabbat (either Friday or Sunday), the date is...
Why do we fast on the Tenth of Tevet?

Why do we fast on the Tenth of Tevet?

by Shira Schechter (Moderator) | f 13, 2021 | Tenth of Tevet, Ninth of Av, Kings, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Mourning, Repentance, Temple

The tenth day of the Hebrew month Tevet, which comes one week after the last day of Hanukkah, is a minor fast day. The fast begins at dawn and ending after sundown.  The fast is in mourning of the beginning of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia...

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