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Dear Fellow Congregants,
By now, you should have
received in the mail a Yom HaShoah Yahrzeit Candle from the Congregation
Beth Emeth Men’s Club.
We ask that you join us
on the evening of Saturday, April 10, 2010, Erev Yom HaShoah, by lighting
the Yellow Candle and reciting the meditation below. As part of
the worldwide Jewish community, it is our collective obligation to honor and
remember
the Six Million who perished in the Holocaust.
We also hope you will join us
for a truly remarkable Yom HaShoah program at Beth Emeth on Sunday, April 11
at 4:30 PM. We will view the film Paper Clips and discuss it with CBE
members who are part of the Second Generation of Holocaust survivors.
Click here for more information about this important event.
Thank you to those
volunteering their time to help pack and mail candles. You are truly
appreciated.
If you would like, please
make a contribution now to the CBE Men’s Club Yom HaShoah Program to support
this effort. Use the online form below to
select a contribution amount and you will be billed on your next statement
from the synagogue,
or download
the form to send or bring to CBE with your donation.
Through your generosity,
we will continue to purchase and mail candles each and every year. Net
proceeds received from the Yom HaShoah Candle Program will be used to fund
Holocaust and other related programming and study in both the religious
school and the synagogue.
Sincerely,
Marty Zelman
Yom HaShoah Program
Coordinator


Yom
HaShoah Meditation
The Blessing of the Yellow Candle
Evening of Saturday, April 10, 2010
As I light this Yellow Candle, I vow never to forget the lives of the Jewish
men, women and children who are symbolized by this flame. They were
tortured and brutalized by human beings who acted like beasts; their lives
taken in cruelty. May we be inspired to learn more about our six million
brothers and sisters as individuals and as communities and to recall their
memories throughout the year. May we recall not only the terror of their
deaths, but also the splendor of their lives. May the memory of their lives
inspire us to hallow our own lives and to live meaningful Jewish lives so
that we may help to insure that part of who they were shall endure always.
-- Rabbi Jules Harlow
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