Category Archives: World
Iom Hashoá – Um momento de importante reflexão
Iom Hashoá é o Dia da Recordação do Holocausto. No calendário judaico, ele cai em 26 de Nissan que, neste ano gregoriano de 2021, será nesta quinta-feira, 8 de abril. A data relembra os mártires do Holocausto, os heróis que tombaram lutando bravamente contra a barbárie, a intolerância, a loucura, a maldade, a bestialidade humana. Read more » »
Porto Holocaust Museum inaugurated ahead of remembrance events
Porto Holocaust Museum inaugurated ahead of remembrance events Israel Hayom Read more »
RAPPEL – Yom Hashoah- Rencontre avec « Les Derniers »
Invitation – Rappel Yom Hashoah – Rencontre avec « Les Derniers » – Zoom le 8 avril à 20h00 Envoyé aux F&S Chères sœurs, chers frères, A l’occasion de Yom Hashoah, le B’nai B’rith France et sa commission nationale Mémoire vous convient à une rencontre Zoom avec Sophie Nahum et « Les Derniers », le jeudi 8 avril 2021 à 20h00. Read more » »
WATCH: Howard Mortman, communications director for C-SPAN and author of the timely new book …
WATCH: Howard Mortman, communications director for C-SPAN and author of the timely new book „When Rabbis Bless Congress: The Great American Story of Jewish Prayers on Capitol Hill,” speaks with CEO Dan Mariaschin. Read more » »
Remembrance and education: Yom HaShoah and the Synagogue in Babyn Yar
This Thursday, April 8 – #YomHashoah – a synagogue will be dedicated at the BABYN YAR Holocaust Memorial Center near Kyiv, #Ukraine to commemorate 80 years since the Babyn Yar massacre. Read more » »
Holocaust ceremony to commemorate Jews who saved fellow Jews during WWII
Together with Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael – Jewish National Fund, we’re hosting a joint ceremony on April 8 to commemorate Jews who saved other Jews during the #Holocaust – the only #YomHaShoah event dedicated annually to honoring their heroism. Read The Jerusalem Post / JPost. Read more » »
Congressman Alcee Hastings, after career of triumph, calamity and comeback, dies at 84
We mourn the loss of U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, a vigorous advocate in the fight against anti-Semitism. We were honored to have him speak at our 2004 biennial, as well as at our event in conjunction with the 2005 OSCE conference on #antisemitism and other forms of discrimination in Córdoba, Spain. Read more » »
Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021: Toronto
Holocaust Denial and Distortion Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5: 00 pm EST Please join us, the Law Society of Ontario, and The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day with this special program. Read more » »
“All Our Brothers and Sisters: Jews Saving Jews During the Holocaust,” co-edited by B’nai B’rith World Center Director Alan Schneider, Now Available
A new book, co-edited by the director of B’nai B’rith World Center-Jerusalem Alan Schneider and dedicated to the stories of Jews who rescued fellow Jews during the Holocaust, is now available through publisher Peter Lang. Read more » »
Remembrance and Education: Yom HaShoah and the Synagogue in Babyn Yar
Thursday, April 8th, marks the confluence of two significant events – the observance of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day throughout the Jewish world, and the dedication of a symbolic synagogue at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center near Kyiv, where 33,771 Jews were murdered in a two-day period in late September 1941. Read more » »
