Dubbed “Megillat Hashoah” — “The Scroll of the Holocaust” — the document was recited publicly for the first time in North America during an April 29 ceremony here at Beth David B ...

The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies announced on Thursday that Megillat Hashoah (the Holocaust Scroll) would for the first time be available online. The scroll, a joint project of the ...

“Never Forget” joins scores of new productions across the denominational spectrum creating new liturgy to mark Yom Hashoah, which falls this year on April 18.

Among the more creative efforts to mark Yom HaShoah in recent years, the Masorti (Conservative) movement in Israel commissioned a Megillat Yom HaShoah, a scroll and liturgical reading, ...

Megillat HaAtzmaut, Israel’s Declaration of Independence, was proclaimed on May 14, 1948 by David Ben Gurion. The document begins with the history of the Jewish people in Eretz Yisrael (The Land ...

For many years the Winnipeg Jewish community has commemorated Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, ... a public reading on April 30 from Megillat Hashoah, or the Holocaust Scroll.

Yom Hashoah is a day set aside for Jews to remember the Holocaust. The name comes from the Hebrew word 'shoah', which means 'whirlwind'. Yom Hashoah was established in Israel in 1959 by law. It ...

Rockland residents will mark the yearly international commemoration of Yom HaShoah — Holocaust Remembrance Day — on Thursday, April 24, from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the County Courthouse Jurors ...