Holocaust Collections and Connections
by Mark Berch • April 29th, 2008 10:18 AM
Category: History & Community, Holidays
-A project sets its goal to collect 1.5 million crayons to commemorate the 1.5 million children who perished in the Holocaust. (St. Louis Jewish Light)
-And a 12 year old seeks to collect 6 million pennies. (Forward)
-Was Raoul Wallenberg connected, directly or indirectly, to a super-secret US intelligence agency known as “the Pond”? (The Jerusalem Post)
-A new exhibit at Yad Vashem seeks to change the way Holocaust survivors are seen in Israel: Not as “as poor and but as “a true part of the fabric of Israel.” (The Jerusalem Post)
-Religious Council head’ of Rosh Ha’ayin in central Israel, Rabbi Hanania Tsfar says that standing at attention while the siren is sounded “is worthless,” and has also asked Yad Labanim not to lay wreaths on gravesites and memorials, since it is considered “gentile practice.” (Ynet)
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