Yom Hashoah is commemorated by Jewish communities all over the world. They take part in rituals to remember those who lost their lives during the Holocaust and to ensure that no similar atrocity ...

Kapparot, the pre-Yom Kippur folk custom of swinging a chicken ... dovetail with 21st-century mores. The ritual has often encountered clucks of disapproval, and this High Holiday season is no ...

(JTA) — Yom HaShoah, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, begins Sunday night, marking the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and serving as a memorial day for the 6 million Jews ...