With the help of Temple Israel member Art Newman, our scroll was deemed to be in good condition to travel and was brought to Temple Sinai for a community siyyum (celebration), along with 18 other Czech scrolls that are in our local community. After fifty years, when most of the scrolls have found new homes, the Trust is charged with the next phase of its work: ensuring that those synagogues who have received scrolls are aware of what they have, that they investigate the scrolls' original homes or what is left of them, and hand on to the next generation the precious legacy they have acquired. Memorial Scrolls Trust initially acquired 1500+ Torah scrolls, saved from the Holocaust (including one housed at Temple Israel). Jeffrey Ohrenstein, chair of Memorial Scrolls Trust, visited our community, October 3-4, 2015. Sister Scrolls from Prestice held by Art Newman of Temple Israel Jeffrey Ohrenstein, Chairperson of the Memorials Scroll Trust, London Bob Sofer of Temple Sinai and Rabbi Joseph Meszler of Temple Sinai. Holocaust Torah from Prestice, Czech Republic and the museum:Ģ014's winners, Danielle Tesla and Justin Korn Please read the essays written by each year's winners, inspired by their visit to D.C. The program is funded by the TI Brotherhood Yellow Candle proceeds. Holocaust Museum and tour the nation's capital. The winners of the annual Road to Remembrance Lottery, sponsored by Temple Israel Brotherhood, accompanied by Irv Kempner, travel to Washington, D.C., where they visit the U.S. In December, 2019, Temple Israel Brotherhood hosted the Night of Comedy fundraiser for MOTL, featuring noted Boston comics Tony V and Steve Calechman. ![]() Those interested in learning more about the March should contact Aaron Kischel. ![]() ![]() Generous scholarship support has been provided by the Kempner Family Foundation, Temple Israel Brotherhood, and Temple Israel’s Marion Mayer Katz Holocaust Fund. In recent years, TI teens Beatrice Fellman, Giselle Fellman, Ari Kwitkin-Close, and Elianna Rech have participated in the March. Since its inception in 1988, more than 260,000 alumni from 52 countries have marched down the same 3-kilometer path leading from Auschwitz to Birkenau on Holocaust Remembrance Day - Yom Hashoah - as a tribute to all victims of the Holocaust. Under the leadership and guidance of Irv Kempner and Aaron Kischel, Temple Israel is an active recruiter for teens to participate in the March of the Living. The March is an annual educational program, bringing individuals from around the world to Poland and Israel to study the history of the Holocaust and to examine the roots of prejudice, intolerance and hatred. If you would like to join the committee (we would love new members!) or would like to speak as a survivor or on behalf of a survivor contact Dina Rosenbaum. This event is free and open to the public. The event includes a short service, candle lighting, reading of names, testimonies from survivors and family of survivors, and musical presentations. It is either held at Temple Israel, Temple Sinai or Temple Beth Abraham and has been co-sponsored by Temple Israel, Temple Sinai, Temple Adath Sharon, Ahavath Torah Congregation, Temple Beth Abraham of Canton, Temple Beth David of the South Shore, Temple Chayai Shalom, Temple Beth Emunah of Brockton, and Temple Shaare Tefilah. This special observance is typically held in April coinciding with the Yom Hashoah Day of Observance on the Jewish calendar. The Holocaust Remembrance Committee organizes the annual " Yom HaShoah v'HaG'vurah – Day of Remembering the Holocaust and the Bravery," in conjunction with other local congregations.
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