The events of October 7th and the related evocations of pogroms and the Holocaust have yielded distinctive questions around how Jews mark trauma. This year as we approach Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Rani Jaeger, head of the recently formed Ritual Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute, and Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield, CEO of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, discussed these questions as well as Hitkansut, an experiential and participatory ritual practiced by Israelis, and more recently, North Americans to honor and preserve the memory of the Shoah. In this session, they consider what tools Jewish history and ritual offer us on how to remember responsibly, how the position of Jews as a minority or majority impacts how we remember, and the challenges of remembering old and new suffering.

This session was recorded on April 2, 2024.