New 'Yad Vashem Way' in NYC

(JNS)- The way Dani Dayan figures it, many people will walk along 67th Street in Manhattan, between Second and Third Avenues, and notice the new sign for "Yad Vashem Way" and have no idea what the first two words mean.

"Some of them, not all of them, but some of them will Google 'Yad Vashem' and learn about the Shoah," Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem, told JNS at the street naming on Thursday.

"Yad Vashem is the vehicle, not the purpose," he said. "This is one more way to accomplish the goal of bringing people to learn about the Shoah."

"I thi...