Photo:  tomertu / Shutterstock.com With the arrival of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Light, we can begin to see the light at the end of this difficult year we have all been through.

Marina Rosenberg Koritny, Head of the World Zionist Organization Department for the Promotion of Aliyah Ten years ago, in October 2015, at the 37th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, a decision was made to create the Department for the Promotion of Aliyah — a structure that would breathe new life into the Zionist idea.

On April 19, 1943, one of the most heroic and tragic events in the history of the Holocaust began in the Warsaw Ghetto — the armed uprising of the Jewish population against the Nazi occupiers.