From the President:
Yom HaShoah Message

Tonight and tomorrow, the entire Jewish community commemorates the lives of 6 million Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust. We all stand united, so that we never forget.

In my community, Yom Hashoa is one of very few days in which everyone comes together. We all remember the lives that were stripped away from this world, under one common idea: never to forget. As I sat there, with my entire community, I wondered, "Why do all these people come to this event, year after year, to experience a similar commemoration, again and again?"

I immediately thought to the Haggadah, where it states at the end of Maggid, "In every generation, a person is obligated to regard himself as if he had left Egypt". We must annually celebrate Pesach, lest we forget the bondage that our ancestors experienced in Egypt.

In the same way, we must continually remember what occured in Nazi Germany 60 years ago, when they tried to exterminate an entire nation. We must remember the Holocaust, so that it never occurs again.