For many Holocaust survivors, May 18, 1945 was the first Shavuot they were able to celebrate after years of war.

Yisrael Meir Lau is the Chairman of Yad Vashem and Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv. He previously served as the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel. At age 9, Rabbi Lau was the youngest person liberated from ...

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau is one of the more prominent consensus figures in Israel. A Holocaust survivor who lost nearly his entire family, the rabbi rose from the horrors of the Buchenwald death ...

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, a former Chief Rabbi of Israel, responded happily Wednesday to the news that his son, Rabbi David Lau, had been elected to the same position. The Lau rabbinic dynasty has ...

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau explains why he participates every year in the March of the Living and what it means to remember and not forget. Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau stands at the gates of Auschwitz.

On Holocaust Memorial Day Israel should think not only of how European Jews died, but of how they lived, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau said in a special interview with Kol B’Rama. Rabbi Lau ...

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, attends a ceremony for a new Torah scroll brought to the synagogue of the Knesset on June 9, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) ...

Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau. Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau — today, the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv — revealed in his message this year that he ...

Yisrael Meir Lau, in open letter to Obama, urges clemency for imprisoned spy on humanitarian grounds By Gabe Fisher 24 February 2013, 1:27 pm Edit Facebook Twitter email Print Rabbi Meir Lau ...

But Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, former chief Rabbi of Israel, disagrees. Rabbi Lau was an eight-year-old Shoah survivor when he reached Israel just three months after WWII ended. Seventy-two years ...

Israel's former Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau shakes hands with Holocaust survivor Felix Goldschmied at the Launceston Synagogue in Launceston, Australia, July 12, 2023. Photo by Mishka ...