Memorial day

As this Holocaust Memorial Day it is impossible to hold large events due to coronavirus, Our 6 Million is starting an initiative to honor the deceased together, while staying apart.

In place of local ceremonies, IDF soldiers will hold a candlelight vigil as well as a salute by a commander and military cantor saying the kaddish.

Richard Russo’s novel ‘Chances Are…’ is a beguiling, surprising reunion of college friends.

“We were ready to participate in the occupation of Japan, but they dropped the H bomb and the war was basically over,” Jack Krasner told In Jerusalem.

The head of the Fidel Association for Education and Social Integration of Ethiopian Jews in Israel remembers her lost loves ones.

“It still hurts,” Berg said as he stood by her grave in the Kfar Etzion cemetery on Israel’s Remembrance Day and spoke of his grief with a group of visiting teenagers.

My Truth has documented tens of testimonies from reservists in recent months describing the use of human shields to carry out terror attacks and other human rights violations.

The ceremony, now in its 10th year, creates a safe space for families of terror victims in which to mourn.

Some 23,741 Israeli soldiers have fallen fighting for the State of Israel since 1865, while 3,150 civilians have been killed in terrorist attacks across the country.