Spring Commemoration Resources -- 2007/5767

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Here are resources you can use to create programs for Yom HaShoah (which falls on May 1 in 2008), Yom HaZikaron (May 7), Yom Ha’Atzmaut (May 8), and Yom Yerushalayim (June 2).

These links are created by the Jewish Agency’s education department for educators, lay leaders, and members of the Jewish community, and have educational material and programming suggestions for each holiday.

Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom HaShoah
Israel Remembrance Day, Yom HaZikaron
Israel’s independence day, Yom Ha’Atzmaut
Jerusalem Day, Yom Yerushalayim
Israel, Zionism, and aliyah
The Israeli calendar, including religious and secular holidays
For links to educational material and programming suggestions in Hebrew, from the Hebrew-language section of the Jewish Agency’s website, click here and here

Please note that all rights to these resources and their presentation are reserved, either to the Jewish Agency, its partner, the WZO, or to third parties who retain ownership of their resources; there may also be instances of shared ownership of rights.

These links were gathered for USCJ by Gila Ansell Brauner, Editor & Producer, Elearning & Resource Division, The Department for Jewish Zionist Education, The Jewish Agency for Israel, 972-2-621 6039 An Online Educator's Guide to Israel.

The materials listed below are available from United Synagogue’ Synagogue Resource Center. Ask your United Synagogue regional director to email the files to you:

For Yom Ha’Atzmaut:

YOM.03 - Yom Ha’Atzmaut - Choral Reading: Israel: Echo of Eternity (B’nai Aviv, Weston, FL)
YOM.04 - Israel Independence Day Haggadah
YOM.05 - Yom Ha’Atzmaut Seder/Service (Beth Tikvah, Toronto, ON)
Hadash 56 - Haggadah Shel Yom Ha’Atzmaut

For Yom HaShoah:

YOM.01 - Yom HaShoah Services and Readings (Collection of sources)
YOM.02 - Yom HaShoah Program Resources (Rabbinical Assembly)
YOM.07 - Yom HaShoah Service/Readings (B’nai David-Judea, Los Angeles, CA)
YOM.08 - Yom HaShoah Readings (Collection of sources)

These program ideas for Yom HaZikaron are from the USY on-line Program Bank: