This year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah, will fall on April 8. Yom Hashoah is a call for all of us to remember the 6,000,000 Jews and other victims who were exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. It is a day to light candles and to recite the Kaddish, the prayer for the departed. While Texas’ Jewish population is not as large as other cultural groups in Texas, the impact of Jewish heritage on the culture, arts, and enterprise of our state has been substantial. People of Jewish ancestry arrived with the first European explorers in the ...