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Goal: Participants will develop a common language for celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut between Americans and Israelis. How: Family together time Virtual mifgash Israelis celebrate what it means to be a free people…
Goal: Participants will develop a common language for celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut between Americans and Israelis. How: Family together time Virtual mifgash Israelis celebrate what it means to be a free people…
Shay Charka once again displays his visual genius, portraying the onerous demand on Israelis to switch from the memorial candles of Yom HaZikaron to the celebrations of Yom Ha'atzmaut. (Originally…
“For 364 days of the year we are busy with criticism. We criticize the nation’s priorities, and the nation’s leaders. But a nation must have one day in a year that is a real celebration... all the harsh criticism must stop…” Klausner wrote this back in 1953, when the State of Israel was only 5 years old!
Yom HaAtzmaut – Israel’s Independence Day -has become an accepted almost universally in the Jewish world as a day of celebration and identification with the State of Israel. Jewish communities the world over mark the day with gala dinners, Israel parades, picnics, youth activities etc. This date, more than any of the traditional holidays, expresses Jews’ connection to the State and the land. In this lesson we will examine some of the issues and different perceptions of Yom HaZikaron and HaAtzmaut in various segments of Israeli society. This study will help illustrate issues and ideologies discussed in Israel today and question how these might be relevant to Diaspora Jewry’s perception of the state as well as the day.
A 14 page document exploring the way other nations celebrate a distant homeland. Can we learn from them? And can we learn from our own Jewish festivals to find a form for Yom Haatzmaut?