The Shoah Eighty Years Later: Prevention, Resilience, Protest (NOTE: On January 29, 2023 Rabbi Sacks represented Am HaYam at the International Holocaust Remembrance Day Commemoration of the Jewish Federation of the Desert, held at the main auditorium of University of California-Riverside, Palm Desert campus. Having served the rabbinic presence on...
From the Rabbi’s Study A Ship’s Waves–Then and Seventy-Five Years Later In 1946, a ship, the USS President Warfield, was bought for $8,028 by the Western Trading Company to be used as scrap. She originally carried passengers across the Chesapeake Bay. During much of WWII, she was a training...
Remembering the Shoah Eighty Years Later: The Privilege of Survival Rabbi J.B. Sacks April 24, 2022 My family has recorded well over 300 family members who died during the Shoah. So Yom HaShoah has deep importance for me, and being together with you, and commemorating it together adds to...
From the Rabbi’s Study The Passion in Compassion As a member of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust, Cantor Isaac Goodfriend[1] joined his colleagues in a tour of a number of concentration camps and other sites. During the tour he visited the Polish farmer who had hidden him and...
This month we shall observe Yom HaShoah, the day of remembrance of those who perished in the Holocaust at the hands of Europe. This past September the results of a survey conducted about the Holocaust were released. I have mentioned this from the pulpit, and I am still unsettled about...
