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Lundi le 23 avril 2012 / Monday April 23, 2012 — Cérémonie nationale de commémoration de l’Holocauste/National Holocaust Memorial Ceremony Shalom, Chaque année, nous marquons un temps d’arrêt pour nous recueillir et pour nous souvenir d’un génocide inhumain, pourtant commis par des humains. La destruction planifiée et systématique de six millions de vies humaines constitue une [...] In an official letter to the IOC, DFM Ayalon asked that the London 2012 Olympic Games begin with a minute of silence in memory of the members of the Israeli Olympic team murdered at the Munich Olympics in 1972. DFM Ayalon (MFA archive photo) (Communicated by the Deputy Foreign Minister’s Bureau) Deputy Minister of Foreign [...] Defense Ministry’s advisory panel is still undecided on whether to allow more personalized inscriptions on tombstones of fallen soldiers. Despite growing pressure from bereaved families, tombstones at military cemeteries will not bear inscriptions of more than 48 words, the national council for soldier commemoration has decided. But after years of deliberation, the Defense Ministry’s advisory [...] Tel Aviv may be known as the first Hebrew city, whose residents often struggled with the language of Eastern European Jews, but from its early days, a glorious Yiddish culture thrived there. At the end of his visit to Israel in 1927, Sholem Asch, a leading Yiddish writer, wrote his impressions of Tel Aviv. “When [...] April 23, 2012 — Ottawa, Ontario Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the following remarks at the 2012 National Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony: “Thank you to Fran and Harry for that kind introduction. I’d also like to thank both, and the entire Canadian Society for Yad Vashem, for your work in the service of a cause of [...] The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs congratulates Richard Marceau, General Counsel and Senior Government Advisor, to be awarded the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Awards for his memoir, A Quebec Jew. Details of the award ceremony: Thursday, June 7, 2012 | 8 PM | FREE The Bram and Bluma Appel Salon [...] The SWC has assigned Canada a failing grade for its prosecution of suspected Nazi war criminals TORONTO (JTA) — The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s latest list of the world’s 10 most-wanted Nazi war criminals contains three new names, all with Canadian connections, and the center claims to have new evidence against one of them. The new [...] “The years pass, but the pain remains,” Netanyahu says at grave of brother, Yoni, killed in the 1976 Entebbe raid. Photo: GPO Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the grave of his brother, Yonatan, on Mount Herzl Sunday evening. Netanyahu, accompanied by his wife, Sarah, and his two sons, Yair and Avner, lit a memorial candle [...] IDF ready to attack Tehran’s nuclear facilities if needed, Chief of Staff Benny Gantz says; military constantly engaged in covert, high-risk operations beyond Israel’s borders, he says Should Israel decide to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities, the IDF will be prepared to carry out the mission, Chief of Staff Benny Gantz told Yedioth Ahronoth in remarks [...] The National Assembly of Quebec marked Holocaust Remembrance Day by adopting a motion stating « That the National Assembly recognizes that today, April 19th, 2012, is Yom Hashoah, the International Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Holocaust ». The Israeli Consul General in Montreal Joël Lion, Yitzhak Vaknin, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, and MK [...]
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