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How Hitler laid the groundwork for genocide.

From Yom HaShoah to International Holocaust Memorial Day, there are a variety of dates for commemorating one of the worst tragedies in Jewish history.

Your questions about the Jewish day of mourning answered.

Within Israel and in the greater Jewish world there are differing views as to whether there is a religious nature to Israel's Independence Day.

This day honoring fallen soldiers immediately precedes Israel's Independence Day.

Tisha B'Av, the ninth day of the month of Av, is the major day of communal mourning in the Jewish calendar.

The best way to honor the memory of Holocaust victims is through Jewish continuity.

Religious observance of Yom Ha'atzmaut draw on a variety of Jewish customs.

On Tisha B’Av, Jews mourn the destruction of the Temple. But how much do you know about what it was really like?

These mournful poems are the central part of the liturgy of Tisha B'Av.

In this period leading up to Tisha B'Av, Jews traditionally abstain from eating meat.