Sirens were heard across the country at 10 a.m., when people were asked to stand, or stop their cars, in memory of 6 million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis.
Many Hareidim, but not all of them, do not stand, and every year the anti-Hareidi media post a picture of Hareidim walking while the siren blares.
The accompanying articles do not explain that the photo-journalist obviously was not standing in devotion if he was taking a picture at the same time.
Moreover, the simply and Halachic reason that many Hareidim do not stand in silence on Holocaust Remembrance Day is not just because it is a “custom of the Gentiles” but because the day falls in the month of Nisan, when the prayer of Tachanun, or “supplications,” is not recited.
It also is the custom not to deliver eulogies in the month of NIsan, which makes Holocaust Remembrance Day seems out of place.
However, the same anti-Haredi media barely mention every year the Fast of the 10th of Tevet, which rabbis have declared as the day of mourning for Holocaust victims, and others, whose dates of death are not known.
Does the same photo-journalist who photographs a Haredi Jew walking while the siren blasts also fast on the Tenth of Tevet?
Below: Video of traffic stopping in highway on Holocaust Remenbrance Day in 2011.