Rabbi Howard Morrison

Dear Congregational Family,

Last night, our shul continued its tradition, spearheaded by brotherhood, of conducting a Yom Hashoa memorial service. I wish to thank all of you who participated and attended. Unique to this service was a visual collage filled with all kinds of memories from you, our congregational family. The collage also contained photographs from Beth Emeth's trip to Poland a few years ago.

I wish to express my gratitude to Stan Greenspan and Rabbi David Grundland for making this one of a kind memorial video into a reality. I also wish to express my gratitude to Cantor David Guber who sang the words of Av Ha'Rachamim, a liturgical dirge in memory of martyrs, taken from the Shabbat morning service, as part of the video. He also sang with inspirational piety Ani Maamin - I believe, El Maleh - the traditional memorial prayer, and Hatikva.

In addition, I wish to thank Rabbi Leslie Lipson for his meaningful Dvar Torah; Malcolm Weinstein for his presidential welcome; and Stan Greenspan for his brotherhood - FJMC remarks.

While the community at large and other institutions hold meaningful Yom Hashoa commemorations, it is vital that a shul like ours conducts a service that is relevant to its members,

Once the pandemic ends, and hopefully soon, we will hold our candlelight ceremony, as has been our recent custom.

May the memories of our six million brothers and sisters be for a blessing.

Rabbi Howard Morrison