Flowers for Holocaust Survivors

Flowers for Holocaust Survivors

This past Tuesday was Yom Hashoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Illanit, our Or Akiva branch manager, arranged for deliveries of flowers and memorial candles to 500 local Holocaust Survivors.  With so many Holocaust...
A Shofar That Defied the Nazis

A Shofar That Defied the Nazis

For years there have been fragmentary reports of almost unbelievable acts of faith at the Nazi death camps during World War II: the sounding of shofars, the ram’s horn trumpets traditionally blown by Jews to welcome the High Holy Days. These stories of the persistence...