Ill never understand the attitude that I am reading here, and that unfortunately so many people I know have regarding this day. No one is saying to fast or say special teffilos, no one is counting it as a yuntif, it is just a day- a regular day in which we take special notice of how lucky we are to be alive and of all the pain and torture and suffering our people went through in the very recent past. Growing up my modern orthodox school always had a yom hashoah event, we read different passages from diaries and journals written by boys and girls in the camps, we put on a play depicting probable scenes from that time, it is very important for kids these days to be immersed in this history. In a few years we won’t have any survivors left, but we can’t forget it. Saying a special kinos on tisha baav is obviously a good thing to do but what 5th grader even knows what they are saying/listening to/answering amen to. They need to hear the stories and learn about what their people went through just like they do every other battle we’ve overcome.
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