yahrzeit: Word of the day for April 20, 2020
yahrzeit , n : (Judaism) The anniversary of a person's death, usually a parent's, often marked by the lighting of a memorial candle and other rituals. יום השואה (Yom HaShoah) or Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is observed as Israel’s day of commemoration for the Jews who perished in the Holocaust and for the Jewish resistance in that period, begins today in 2020 at sunset.