Op-Ed by Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Executive Vice President of American Friends of Lubavitch (Chabad) in Washington, DC: Remembering what can happen if we’re not cognizant of the past and how it came to be will ensure it doesn’t happen again.
This past Monday marked not only International Holocaust Remembrance Day but also the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
This week, the world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. On this day, the world pauses to remember the unimaginable horrors inflicted upon millions of innocent men,
Alex Kor, son of Auschwitz survivor Eva Kor, and Troy Fears, executive director of CANDLES Holocaust Museum, were among those attending a ceremony in Poland Monday marking the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation by Soviet troops.
The Hamas terrorist organization “drew inspiration from Hitler and the Nazis in attacking Israel on Oct. 7, 2023,” the Israeli president told the United Nations.
The only thing sadder than observing a day of remembrance for the genocide of one’s people is observing it while unimaginably being accused of the very crime itself.
Chabad Shliach Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler sounded the shofar and Israel's former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau recited Kaddish at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Auschwitz.
A recurring theme is portentous declarations presenting Ireland as the most liberal, peace-loving country in the world and himself as a life-long advocate for harmony amongst nations. These can sit uneasily with his devotion to violent revolutionaries like Fidel Castro and his thinly-veiled sympathy for terrorists like Hamas.