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Alia Ramer has 15 years experience parenting, combined with 17 years experience (on and off and on again) with the New Jersey Jewish News. She majored in History of Art in college, which won’t help much here, and minored in Jewish Studies, which might. Alia can be reached at tribeandjoy@njjewishnews.com
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April 25, 2012
Yom Hazikaron
Today is Israel’s Memorial Day. In the U.S., for Memorial Day, we have a sale. In Israel, they truly remember the fallen. You would be hard pressed in Israel to find a family who hasn’t lost a soldier or someone to terror.
Everything stops. Traffic stops, people get out of their cars, stand at attention, and a siren blares for two minutes. People in the shuk stop shopping. Even the vendor in this video stops calling out, “Who wants pitas?” We think it’s a day off, a day for fun, they save the fun for tomorrow, for Independence Day, Yom Ha’atzmaut.