Tag: Shoah
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Shabbat Zachor: God’s outcry
It is an interesting co-incidence that on this Shabbat we commemorate all the violent and destructive attacks on the Jewish people in the past while we also begin with the […]
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80 years after the “Kristallnacht” November Pogrom
On Thursday, 8 November at 18.30, we will have a special lecture for the ITJ programme at the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide centre, learning about the Shoah. The lecture includes […]
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How can we remember on Shabbat Zachor?
Chaverim, I have always been intrigued by the commandment ‘you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget it’ (Deuteronomy 25:19). Simultaneously we are […]
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Yom HaShoah: Reinstating the memory and names as a permanent remembrance
When someone we love passes away, we experience deep sorrow and grief. We miss that person’s presence and caring. We miss the support and all that we shared. Jewish mourning […]