April 2019
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Broadway Teen Actor Opens Up About His Jewish Heritage and The Role Of A Lifetime
April 2019
- Israelis pause for a different kind of siren: the one marking Holocaust memorial day(JTA) — For the last six weeks, whenever Israelis have heard a siren, they were instructed to run to their nearest bomb shelter. On Tuesday, a siren instead brought them to a halt. The two-minute siren was the one sounded annually on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust memorial day. In keeping with a national tradition, Israelis stopped... […]
- Many children killed in the Holocaust had no one to say Kaddish for them. These Jews have stepped up.(JTA) — As each week’s Shabbat morning service comes to a close at Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach, Florida, an unusual tradition unfolds as the congregation prepares to recite the Mourner’s Kaddish. Rabbi Alan Bell asks to stand all those reciting the prayer on the anniversary of the death of a loved one.... […]