"REMEMBERING WHAT WAS LOST"
STATEN ISLAND JEWISH COMMUNITY YOM HASHOAH COMMEMORATION
APRIL 18, 2004, AT CONGREGATION B'NAI JESHURUM
For there is hope of a tree; If it be cut down, it will sprout again (Job 14.7)
The Program
Star Spangled Banner/National Anthem
Candle Light Procession
accompanied with
Ani Mamim -(I Believe)
Welcome Remarks
The Life That Is No More
"Hovering Above the Pit", in Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust by Yaffia Eliach
EsBrent
Ashrei Hagfruer
Keynote Address: The Shtetl: Myth or Reality?
Youth Group members
Cantor Edry
Congregation Temple Emanu-El Choir
Cantor Liat Pelman-Forst
Rabbi Gerald Sussman
Readings of essays by Hebrew School students:
Congregation B'nai Israel - Yiddish Language
Congregation B'nai Jeshurun - Jewish Cultural and Scientific Contributions
Arden Heights Boulevard Jewish Center - Jewish Music
Readings of essays by Hebrew School students:
Congregation Ohel Abraham - Shtetl Life
Ahavath Israel - The Holocaust
Jewish Community Center - Match Making
Congregation Temple Emanu-El - Yiddish Theatre
Congregation Aviv Hadash - Chasidism Pre-Holocaust
Holocaust Ballad: Jerusalem We Are Here
Congregation Temple Emanu-EI Choir
The Lighting of Memorial Candles
The Lost World words by Alter Kacyzne, music by Cantor Suzanne Bernstein
Holocaust Torah Procession: Passing the Holocaust Torah from Generation to Generation
Shiviti
Kel Moleh Rachamin
23rd Psalm
Holocaust Kaddish
Hatikvah
Led by Cantors Pelman-Forst and Edry
God Bless America: the audience