by Kim Troup | Apr 6, 2021 | News from the Land
April 6, 2021by Sondra Oster BarasTomorrow night begins Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is a day of mourning, of memory, of identification with the victims of the most heinous crimes in the history of humanity, the brutal murder of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germany. ...
by Elyshia Johnson | May 18, 2020 | Newsletters, Reflections from Israel
By: Meira Weber May 19th, 2020 I grew up watching an educational American television show called Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. The show was centered around a sweet man named Fred Rogers, who was called just Mr. Rogers on the show, and he would sing and teach and impart...
by Elyshia Johnson | Apr 20, 2020 | Newsletters, Reflections from Israel
By: Meira Weber April 21, 2020 Growing up in the USA, every year in school, as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day neared, the school would hold an assembly. All the grades would attend this assembly, which was held in the gymnasium or another large...
by Kim Troup | Jan 30, 2012 | Reflections from Israel
April 2009 Today is Yom HaShoah- Holocaust Memorial Day. It started last night at sundown when a siren blew. The siren blew again this morning at 11 A.M. All over the country, radio stations broadcast a minute long siren, both at night and in the morning. Schools,...
