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Any public Jewish institution that is inextricably tied to the greater Jewish community can only express its deep sorrow as it looks back over the past year. Hundreds of thousands of our brethren, the…
What does the Voice of Auschwitz command?
Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember…
The reading of Tetsaveh on [Shabbat] Zakhor, [the Sabbath immediately preceding Purim]:
A remembrance for the children of Israel; stones of remembrance for the children of Israel; stones of…
We turn our thoughts to yesterday…to a world that lives only in our memory.
As we recall the days gone by, we know the past is irretrievable.
Yet—through the gift of memory, we recapture treasured…
To be human is to remember. To lose memory is to lose a piece of ourselves. To lose all of memory is one of the great human tragedies; some part (though surely not all) of the divine light within us…