Jewish and Israeli Holidays
The Maccabees are ranked No. 24 in a listing on D3hoops.com, voted on by a panel of 25 coaches, sports-information directors and reporters.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, WhatsApp founder Jan Koum and Houzz founder Adi Tatarko will host friends, colleagues, youth and other members of the Silicon Valley community in their homes for intimate discussions with Holocaust survivors.
“Rabbi Cohn saw how a democracy can be corrupted into a fascist dictatorship, and what happens when anti-Semitism is allowed to fester,” said Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.).
“Rabbi Cohn’s life story is a stark and vivid reminder that not only must we never forget the Holocaust, but we must also learn the lessons from this horrific and evil period to ensure such persecution never happens again,” said Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.).
“Tu B’Shevat isn’t just for kids,” said Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein, Hazon’s rabbi-in-residence, who wrote an updated Haggadah that combines science and current events with traditional Jewish wisdom.
The announcement came on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marked annually on Jan. 27 to commemorate the 11 million people who perished in the Holocaust, 6 million of whom were Jews.
“In all, we did too little. Not enough protection, not enough help, not enough recognition,” says Dutch leader Mark Rutte • Anti-Semitic in France increased by 27 percent in 2019, says French interior minister.
The proclamation notes that Holocaust survivors have told their story, and that the world should learn from the European genocide that killed 11 million people—6 million of them Jews.
“It was appalling to watch Orla Guerin hijack a segment dedicated to remembering 6 million murdered Jews and use it to desecrate the memory of the Holocaust with her hatred of the Jewish state,” said Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
“I hope and pray that from this room, the message will go out to every country on earth that the leaders of the world will stand united in the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and extremism, in defending democracy and democratic values. This is the call of our time,” said Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin.
“At every event to mark the day, people know more about the past, develop empathy for others and commit to taking action to create a better future,” said Holocaust Memorial Day Trust chief executive Olivia Marks-Woldman.
Seven decades later, nearly all of them—the skeletal prisoners on one side of the barbed wire and their liberators on the other—are gone. The world remembers the date thanks to the United Nations, which designated it as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005.
