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Apr 20, 2026, 2:06 PM

Two Minutes of Silence – Yom Hazikaron

thinking of you today through two minutes of silence and an aching heart just know that I think of you not just today but so many other days knowing that I'm here today because of the names you left behind

Apr 13, 2026, 6:35 PM

I’m Still Here – Yom Hashoah

I'm still here by your side all these years waiting with you fear searing tears burning as we tremble through the cold through the dark waiting at the edge... take my hand I'm still here

Apr 30, 2025, 7:01 AM

Yom Hazikaron – Never Forgotten

standing in silence lost in images of your lost lives I reach out to you lost in sorrow... two minutes in silence... just know you're never alone you're never forgotten

Apr 23, 2025, 11:29 PM

Yom Hashoah, But No One Is There

every year at this time I see you at every turn your arms wide pleading hoping but no one is there... I hear your cries they haunt me through the day and night and I weep with you but no one is there

Oct 7, 2024, 6:56 AM

Poem: Not Today

the pain is so hard to bear so deep so deep so hard to bear... tomorrows might be better one might say but not today not today

Jun 5, 2024, 6:49 AM

Yom Yerushalayim, Missing You Jerusalem

I miss the soft flannel touch of Jerusalem nights cool scented mornings and the waft of wild spice through autumn pine and my Jerusalem window

May 13, 2024, 4:12 PM

Yom Hazikaron poem: I think of you always

it is not only today that I think of you and your lives lost... I think of you always... I am here today because of the names you left behind

May 6, 2024, 2:26 PM

Yom Hashoah poem: We weep together

on this morning I am with you in your last days... and in my imaginings I hold you close and we weep together trembling through long nights... through the cold... just know you're never alone you're never forgotten

May 18, 2023, 3:32 PM

and when you speak of Jerusalem come sit by me among the folds of Judean hillsides and when you speak of Jerusalem sit by me amid sage and thyme sprinklings of saplings and textures and tones resounding on a Jerusalem day

Apr 24, 2023, 11:47 PM

far from you now lighting a candle holding you close in silence in stillness looking back remembering in sadness battlefields your lives lost... remembering

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About Me

Sandra Schachter made aliya from Canada in 1968 and lived in Jerusalem for 33 years, where she was a freelance writer and editor, contributing articles and poetry to various publications around the world. She now resides in Montreal.