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Jerusalem, 9116002
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For assistance, please call Dina Gudai at 074-780-0643 (8:00 AM – 3:00 Israel time Sunday through Thursday).
Your donation will be tax deductible in the US to the extent allowed by the IRS.
To make a tax-deductible donation by wire transfer in the US, please contact:
Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
To make a tax-deductible donation in Israel, please contact:
Dina Gudai, Israeli Representative
Phone: 074-7800643
Email: dina@schechter.ac.il
Please mail your check to:
The Schechter Institutes, Inc. (a 501(c) 3 tax exempt organization)
Box #3566
PO Box 8500
Philadelphia, PA 19178-3566
Attn: Mr. Avrum Lapin, North American Representative
Toll-free: 1-866-830-3321
Email: schechter@thelapingroup.com
Please indicate the donation is "for your joint Schechter Institutes program."
Checks should be made payable to the Jewish Theological Society of Canada and mailed to:
Jewish Theological Society of Canada
c/o Camp Ramah in Canada
3845 Bathhurst St., Suite 310
Toronto, ON, M3H 3N2
Phone: 416-789-2193, ext. 2139
E-mail: accounting@campramah.com
Please mail a check to:
The Schechter Institutes
Attn: Dina Gudai, Finance Department
PO Box 16080,
Jerusalem, 9116002
Israel
For assistance, please call Dina Gudai at 074-780-0643 (8:00 AM – 3:00 Israel time Sunday through Thursday).
Memory or heroism? Victims or heroes? What should a museum commemorate? Professor Doron Bar, President of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, shares insights into how Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial and museum, was established. He focuses on the Hall of Remembrance, a less frequented site in the Yad Vashem complex, and its meaning to him and to his students. Watch the video below:
Read the accompanying article about the establishment of Yad Vashem, including original architectural renderings of the site.
From the article introduction:
Yad Vashem, a symbolic focal point devoted to the memory and commemoration of the Holocaust, is one of Israel’s foremost official sites. The Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance (Yad Vashem) Law passed by Israel’s Knesset in August 1953 provided for the founding of a Remembrance Authority and led to the establishment of Yad Vashem in the same year. The law defined the objectives of the authority and determined that among its other functions, it would assemble in the homeland the memory of all those children of the Jewish people who fell and gave their lives, fought and rose up against the Nazi enemy and its collaborators, and [would] place a monument and memorial to them, to the communities, to the organizations, and to the institutions that were destroyed because they belonged to the Jewish people.*
While the law stipulates the commitment to commemorate the Holocaust and the heroism of that period in the same breath, the question of what heroism is, and how it should be expressed at Yad
Vashem, is complex and has evolved over time.
*The Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance (Yad Vashem) Law 5713-1953, The Statute Book, no. 132, 8 Elul 5713, Aug. 19, 1953, paragraph 2.
Doron Bar, former president and dean of the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, is a professor of Land of Israel studies. He earned his PhD from The Hebrew University in Historical Geography. Professor Bar is researching the development of popular and national holy places. He is a seventh generation descendant of an Old Yishuv Jerusalem family.
