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Prayer for Holocaust remembrance

Message and Special Prayer For Holocaust Day A call to remember from the depths of our soul. From Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, April 18, 2012 Tonight and tomorrow, the 27th of Nissan, we will be commemorating Yom HaShoah, the day … Continue reading

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Netanyahu on Holocaust

PM Netanyahu’s Speech at Holocaust Remembrance Day Translation 18/04/2012 Photo by GPO Yesterday morning, I visited an old-age home for Holocaust survivors.  There, I met Idit Yapo, an amazing woman of 104, clear and lucid.  Idit fled Germany shortly after … Continue reading

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Yom Hashoah videos

Stories of Survivors Posted by Sheila Raviv , April 18, 2012 Dancing under the gallows. Alice Herz-Sommer, at 108, is the oldest Holocaust Survivor in the world. Her secret is in her music, which she still plays for hours every … Continue reading

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Remember the Holocaust

Netanyahu links Holocaust to Iranian threat Speaking at Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem PM says people who dismiss Iranian threat as an exaggeration have learnt nothing from Holocaust Aviad Glickman, YNet News, April 18, 2012 Prime Minister Benjamin … Continue reading

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Jewish refugees deserve compensation

Let’s talk about refugees What is virtually never given media attention is the issue of Jewish refugees. For centuries, Jewish communities existed in many Arab countries. Their combined numbers were estimated to be roughly 850,000. The UN partition vote in … Continue reading

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Israel continues to absorb immigrants

The promise and the challenge By JEROME E. FISCHER Publication: The Day Published 04/15/2012 12:00 AM Jerome E. Fischer Elderly Ethiopian Jewish women work in their craft shop at the Absorption Center of Mevaseret Tzion, just west of Jerusalem. Older … Continue reading

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Critics of Israel are misinformed

Israel’s Resilient Democracy Like the United States, we have our flaws. But to say Israel is undemocratic is just dead wrong. BY MICHAEL OREN | APRIL 5, 2012 At 64, Israel is older than more than half of the democracies … Continue reading

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Reflections for the Seder

The CLARITY Seminar’s Seder night handout: For Passover, 2012, April 6, Seder night: The Pathway to Personal Redemption G-d, please accept my sincere yearning among the rest of the Jewish people and the world What to have in mind When … Continue reading

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