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...
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...
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...
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...
