An emotional Yom Hazikaron ceremony for students of Ohr Torah Stone’s Jennie Sapirstein Girls’ High School was joined by a delegation of 40 Federation professionals and lay leaders from Chicago and the greater Illinois region, as well as eight top professional and lay leaders from the Jewish Federations of North America, in Israel for the General Assembly.

Amongst the attendees were Julie Platt, Chair of the Board of Trustees, JFNA; Eric Fingerhut, President and CEO, JFNA; and Lonnie Nasatir, President of JUF/JF Chicago.

Following the moving ceremony, which was produced by the students and paid tribute to Israel’s fallen soldiers and victims of terror, the delegation from North America engaged in a conversation with Ohr Torah Stone President and Rosh HaYeshiva Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander; Eleventh grader Tzila Rothschild, and faculty member Yedida Kayvon, about what the Israeli Memorial Day means to them.