Annual Commemoration of the Holocaust

Wednesday, May 1 | 7:00 pm

Please join members of Main Line Reform Temple, Beth Am Israel, Beth David Reform Congregation and Adath Israel for a solemn evening in which we
remember the Shoah, Annual Commemoration of the Holocaust and the Light of the Candles for the Six Million. 
The observance will feature Rabbi Abraham Skorka. It will be our sacred honor once more to invite Holocaust survivors,
​their families and descendants to join for the lighting of the Menorah for the Six Million. We will be joined as well by area clergy and choirs.

SERVICE
Memorial Candle Lighting for The Six Million

WE REMEMBER!

This is a sacred and sanctified observance.
It is our one opportunity to bear witness to history,
and to give testimony that we will never forget that Holocaust,
and those that may threaten yet again.
Please be with us in solidarity and in community.
The entire community, both Jewish and non-Jewish,
is invited to join us and school-aged children are encouraged to attend.

We are grateful to Suzanne and Norman Cohn
and their family for the annual support of this
most important commemoration.

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YOM HASHOAH YELLOW CANDLES PROGRAM

The historian Hayden White remarked presciently “in history, we don’t just remember the dead, we do their remembering for them.  And that’s an awesome responsibility, but a necessary one.”  We are a people of memory.  The Yom HaShoah Yellow Candle Program was begun in 1981 by the Federation Jewish Men’s Clubs, the Conservative Brotherhoods, and now also embraced by our own Men of Reform Judaism.  The program has a single purpose:  to remember the six million children, women, and men who were murdered senselessly and with indifference during the Shoah.
Our Brotherhood wants you to have a Yellow Candle, which you will light on Erev Yom HaShoah, April 11. The candles are available at MLRT for the asking.  They will also be available at our annual Yom HaShoah service.  Questions can be directed to Gary Brock at 610-517-3870.
Brought to you by Men of Reform Judaism and MLRT Brotherhood.

PROGRAM

​​Rabbi Abraham Skorka was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is doctor in Chemistry (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and Rabbi graduated from the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano. He was the rector of the Seminario for 20 years and rabbi of the Benei Tikva Congregation for 42 years.

He developed an intensive activity in the interfaith dialogue, especially with the current Pope Francis, with whom he wrote a book of dialogues and recorded 31 television programs at the time that Bergoglio was the archbishop of Buenos Aires.

He was an official member of the Vatican delegation in Pope France’s visit to the Holy Land. He received honorary doctorates degree from the Universidad Catolica Argentina, Jewish Theological Seminary, Sacred Hearth University; the Jan Karsky Eagle Award 2017, etc.
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Current University Professor in the Institute for Jewish-Catholic relations in Saint Joseph’s University.