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Is Yom HaShoah on the Wrong Day?

JL;DR SUMMARY Natan Slifkin explores the contention surrounding the observance of Yom HaShoah, questioning whether the chosen date, the 27th of Nissan, appropriately commemorates the Holocaust. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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ZionismWarsaw Ghetto UprisingYom HashoahCharediJewish UnityHolocaust RemembranceHeroismCommunity ParticipationSpiritual ResistanceNational Memory

Places mentioned

Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"They decided to choose a very different type of day: One relating to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising."
Israel
"The first Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel was on Asarah BTevet 1949, following a decision by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel that it should be observed on a traditional day of mourning in the Jewish calendar."
United Kingdom
"I was educated in the finest British Orthodox Jewish schools. But I almost never learned about the Holocaust."
Manchester, United Kingdom
"I came back to Manchester and asked the school principal if we could make a Holocaust exhibition."

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