Yom Hashoah

Defying the Holocaust didn’t just mean uprising and revolt: Remembering Jews’ everyday resistance on Yom HaShoah and year-round

By Chad Gibbs — April 11, 2023
(The Conversation) — Yom HaShoah, which falls on April 17-18, 2023, pointedly commemorates Jewish resistance to the Nazis.

Second gentleman Doug Emhoff touts ‘critical’ interfaith collaboration

By Adelle M. Banks — April 29, 2022
(RNS) — Emhoff spoke about how his interfaith marriage reflected the observance of major Jewish and Christian holidays in quick succession.

What’s Auschwitz? 2/3 of millennials don’t know it was a Nazi death camp, survey reports

By Mark A. Kellner — April 12, 2018
(RNS) — It also found that 31 percent of all Americans and more than 4-in-10 millennials believe that 2 million Jews or less were killed during the Holocaust — substantially less than the historically accepted figure, which is closer to 6 million.

Universities should be preparing to respond to anti-Semitism this fall

By Ezra Pasackow — August 9, 2017
(RNS) — Anti-Semitic incidents on campus are part of the long history of discrimination against Jews.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Trump has another opportunity to speak up

By R. Ward Holder — April 21, 2017
(RNS) Trump has only the man in the mirror to blame for questions about his relationships with the Jewish people.

Holocaust survivors on Capitol Hill light candles to remember

By Lauren Markoe — May 5, 2016
WASHINGTON (RNS) On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israeli and American officials warn of rising intolerance.

Holocaust violins live to play another song

By Tracy Gordon — April 10, 2012

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (RNS) Another voice from the past is telling the stories of the Holocaust. Violins that outlived their owners in the Nazi camps and Jewish ghettos are being brought back to life by Amnon Weinstein in his shop in Tel Aviv, and will be unveiled for Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremonies. By Ken Garfield.

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