Virtual community gathering for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023

After decades of fearing that we would forget the horrors of our past, is it possible that we remember our history all too well but feel powerless to act on its lessons?

We paused to commemorate the day and to honor those persecuted during the Holocaust.

What does Holocaust memory demand of us? How does the dwindling of the number of living Holocaust survivors impact our responsibility?

What is the relationship between memory and action? Can we harness collective memory of past traumas to mobilize large-scale response in times of crisis?

Weaving survivor testimonies, literary texts, music, poetry, and prayer together poignantly commemorates the Holocaust in an engaging communal way

Justin Pines joins host Abigail Pogrebin to discuss the pioneering concept of Hitkansut, a new ritual for Yom HaShoah.

As we prepare to mark a Yom HaShoah for which few survivors remain, we are forced anew to confront the question, “What does it mean to remember?”

As a community and as a society, we must learn from the mass wave of Aliyah from the FSU of the 1990s, from its blind spots and mistakes.

What if we remember well, but cannot act upon it? Will Jewish memory become a prison of our powerlessness?