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January 27, 2025

How Holocaust Remembrance Day Became a Celebration of Platitudes

“Never Again” means nothing if Jews aren’t allowed to defend themselves against their would-be murderers.

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Every year, I’m a little uncertain about whether and how to mark this day in Mosaic. Israel commemorates the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah, which falls on the 27th day of the month of Nissan. And there remain Jews who reject Yom HaShoah as a modern imposition, since the ancient fast of the Ninth of Av has already been designated for mourning national tragedies. Why add yet another day, of recent vintage, granted its official status by the corrupt and anti-Semitism-ridden United Nations?

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