The Department For the Promotion of Aliyah of the World Zionist Organization is incredibly stunned by the brutal act of hate committed in the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of the victims and their loved ones.

Today, January 2, is the eighth and last day of Hanukkah.

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.