Yom HaShoah: Israel falls silent in memory of the Holocaust

[krishnarama]

OP note: In memory of my grandfather and his family who perished in the Holocaust.

Israeli Jews fell silent for Yom HaShoah as the nation paused to remember the 6 million Jews that died in the Holocaust.



Commemorations began on Wednesday evening and continue through Thursday, with the country coming to a near total standstill as sirens marked a two minutes’ silence at 10am.



Restaurants, shops, and places of entertainment are closed by law and television and radio stations are broadcasting special programming about the genocide.

The theme of this year’s reflection is ‘The Anguish of Liberation and the Return to Life: 70 Years since the end of World War II’, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a speech at Yad Vashem to liken Iran to Nazi Germany.

http://www.jewishnews.co.uk/yom-hashoah-israel-falls-silent-in-memory-of-holocaust/

[AuntPatsy]

1. .

[oberliner]

2. Getting Memory Right: Preparing for Yom HaShoah

Excerpt:

In New York City, the “Reading and Hearing of the Names” was conceived by B’nai Jeshurun in 1995 and then BJ Rabbi Rolando Matalon, invited the Manhattan JCC to expand it in 1998. The JCC now coordinates every synagogue on the Upper West Side, across denominations, to read names of Holocaust victims from 10:00 in the evening to 7:00 the next morning. It continues the next day at the JCC building itself, from 9am-7pm.

“What’s stunning,” says Rabbi Joy Levitt, the JCC’s executive director, “is that I’ve been doing this for 17 years, and we’re not even a fraction of the way through the names we gathered from Yad Vashem [the official Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem], which obviously don’t include all 6 million.”

The names are organized by country. “I remember that it took us four years just to read through the Jews of Belgium,” she notes.

“The process was death for death’s sake,” Rabbi Irving Greenberg writes in “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays.” “Starvation, disease, terror, deportation, airless crouching boxes, chemical poisoning, medical experiments, freezing, burning, beating, whipping, burial alive, bayoneting, smashing heads, shooting squads, gassing — the kingdom of night, the triumph of death.”

http://wonderingjew.forward.com/218602/getting-memory-right-preparing-for-yom-hashoah/#ixzz3XUVmGI16

[COLGATE4]

3. In memory of your grandfather and his family as

well as all those who perished in the Shoah

[Jefferson23]

4. Why Holocaust Remembrance Day Is Today

The date marks the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The calendar year is full of dates that could be chosen for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Some, like January 27, the day of the liberation of Auschwitz, are recognized internationally. And, as Allied forces moved through Europe liberating Nazi death camps throughout early 1945, those dates continue to amass. So why is this Thursday, April 16, marked as Holocaust Remembrance Day in the United States and elsewhere?

As the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum explains, the date corresponds with the 27th of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar, which in 1943 — on April 19 in the Western calendar — marked the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Though the date may appear to move around from year to year, it’s always on that anniversary.

http://time.com/3813714/holocaust-remembrance-day-warsaw/

[King_David]

7. Heroes

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The very first "Strong Jews" who refused to go like lambs to the slaughter .

The Heroes of today's strong Jews.

Once we were weak but never again will we be .

All thanks to Israel.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. The first "strong Jews?" are you back to that sophomoric position again? Sick.

We're the other millions of victims of the Holocaust weak as well? Rubbish.

They were victims, but now that we are on the sophomoric subject of fighting and strength I guess that you must respect the Palestinians in Gaza when the fight from their ghetto / prison, right?

Are they the heros or strong Palestinians?

And before you reply try and think. They weren't weak. They were victims.

[King_David]

9. Not sure someone who's not a part of either community here can judge or talk

Especially not to those of us who's families actually were involved here.


Adopting another people's struggle as ones own and making it their primary struggle in life doesn't really count.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

10. I'm talking to you, Dave, about your oversimplified sophomoric position on calling

Victims of the Holocaust as weak. That is extreamly insulting to anybody that has lived through it I would imagine. Are the remaining Holocaust survivors living in Israel weak?

Are the Palestinians living in their Israeli imposed ghetto strong when they fight back?

[King_David]

15. Jews were weak throughout history,yes and since the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the Jewish State

with mighty Jewish power , Jews have it within their own hands the means to assure Never Again will anyone even attempt to annihilate us.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

19. I guess then you condone mighty Palestinian power

against the Israeli aggressor...

Any other answer than yes here shows your blatant hypocrisy.

[King_David]

20. Strong Jews are the extremist right wing's

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(and some other folks )worst nightmare.

It helped improve Antisemitism rates in other countries such as the USA and Australia and South Aftica too.... Of course there are those with no ties to any side in this conflict that got involved because of the fact that Jews are now strong and become "antiZionists" or so.

It used to be country clubs in the USA said no Jews allowed , then we became strong and now it's "no Zionist goods sold here.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

21. Thank you for the trifecta, dave...

Strong Jews are the extremist right wing...

1. So"strong Jews" are extremist right wingers to you?

The Heroes of today's strong Jews.

2. And you consider them heroes?

3. You consider extremist right wingers as heroes?

4. If you consider right wingers as heroes then what does that say about you as a supposed Democrat?




Looks like you just fell on your face with that reply.

[King_David]

22. Strong Jews are the extremist right wing's Nightmare

You know - all those "antiZionists" like the David Duke and Rense types that adopted another people's cause ( Palestinian) for one reason and only one reason : Jews are involved.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

40. Nice recover dave. I guess that you will

chalk that up to having two right thumbs?

[LeftishBrit]

33. He said that strong Jews are the right-wing extremists' NIGHTMARE

That's the opposite of how you interpreted it.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

41. After the edit. Sure.

[azurnoir]

23. Nice edit

[King_David]

24. Was needed to convey original intent

Nothin "nice" about it.

Sorry no "gotcha" here ... Keep looking for one ...

[azurnoir]

25. wasn't looking saw the original this morning

somehow Freud's sister's undergarment keeps coming to mind

[King_David]

28. Don't give up your day job to go into psychiatry

Diagnostics and Freud are very difficult to understand.

[Scootaloo]

31. Freud's not that difficult. He's usually mostly wrong, too

Sometimes a corndog is just a corndog

[King_David]

36. Ok

Sure.

[Scootaloo]

38. ...Sorry, "Bill and Ted" reference

Second-best film in the history of cinema, I can't just pass it up.

[azurnoir]

34. Oh never but somethings are quite easy to understand

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

39. Quite the Freudian Shlep.

[azurnoir]

42. ........

?387

[Scootaloo]

26. Oh yes. Country clubs are the hotbed of anti-zionism.

...I guess?


"I tell you Mandy, the seventh green is so much nicer now that Pine Greens stopped using fertilizer manufactured in Area C."
"I [o]know Tucker! it's one more step towards the liberation of the Palestinian people!"

Yeah, somehow i'm just not seeing it

[King_David]

29. Country clubs used to have "no Jews allowed" policies

Not a very "funny "post your creating there.

Even if you think your trying to be "clever"

[Scootaloo]

30. Oh, I didn't dispute that

But your idea that they're hotbeds of anti-zionism is pretty laughable.

[King_David]

35. Yes your views on "Zionism" are well known to all of us

Witness the hidden post here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113499576#post11

[Scootaloo]

37. I've expounded on it often enough

Though to judge from the gibberish you responded - and alerted - with, I'm not sure you 'know" much of anything, sadly.

[Scootaloo]

11. Jury results:

On Thu Apr 16, 2015, 09:22 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

The first "strong Jews?" are you back to that sophomoric position again? Sick.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1134&pid=100440

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

This is nothing but a inappropriate personal attack. Please remove and please consider banning R. Daneel Olivaw from I/P as he offers no substance to the discussion.

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Thu Apr 16, 2015, 09:36 PM, and the Jury voted 2-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: it is not a personal attack. David is really making a sophomoric statement.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #3 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: "Please remove and please consider banning R. Daneel Olivaw from I/P as he offers no substance to the discussion."

We should consider waterboarding and then the death penalty as well. What a fucking stupid alert.
Juror #6 voted to HIDE IT
Explanation: No explanation given
Juror #7 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
Explanation: No explanation given

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

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You know, for a guy who says he never alerts, sure seems that people he argues with get an awful lot of alerts that sound very similar. Just saying.

[King_David]

12. Wasn't me

But I guess I have lots of friends .

I can give pointers if you'd like.

[Scootaloo]

14. Quality over quantity, I always say.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

13. Sophomoric positions, indefensible comparisons, sophomoric alerters.

Talk about weak.

[King_David]

16. Clearly you were Juror 1

[Scootaloo]

17. #5 conveyed my feelings better than I did, I think

[leftynyc]

5. ...

[azurnoir]

6. in memory of all those who met their deaths in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany

[Little Tich]

18. The holocaust should be commemorated and remembered.

Too bad there’s one Israeli that just doesn’t understand that.

[840high]

27. In memory of my Father.

[LeftishBrit]

32. RIP. The victims must never be forgotten

'Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used a speech at Yad Vashem to liken Iran to Nazi Germany.'

How incredibly tasteless of him.