Memorial Prayer News Today

The Chief Rabbi led a service for Kinder and their families

The Montreal community gathered for the first time in person since 2019 at the Gelber Centre last week for the annual commemoration of Kristallnacht, the Nov. 9-10, 1938 Nazi-organized pogrom

Yizkor.  “Remember…Don’t forget” (Deuteronomy 25:17&19). Yizkor, The Memorial Prayer, is a very popular custom, if I may use an inappropriate word, mainly in the Ashkenazi world. On the last day of each of the three Biblically ordained Pilgrim Festivals, Pesach, Shavuot, and Sucot,  we add memorial prayers for departed parents or other lost relatives. Although remembering the dead goes back…

School children also read and listened to poems and readings at the ceremony

LEFKADIAN LIVE Join the Lefkadians of Melbourne for a night of live Greek music, food and dancing. Tickets are $50, bookings are essential. When: 14 May, 7:30pm Where: Lefkadian Spiti, 124 Bell St, Coburg, VIC, 3058 Bookings & Info: Call Alexandra on 0409 531 089 MEMORIAL PRAYER SERVICE AND WREATH LAYING The Pontian Coordinating Committee for the Commemoration of the Greek Genocide are holding a Memorial Prayer Service for the victims of the Greek Genocide of Pontus. When: 16 May, 11:00am Where...

ADVANCED SCREENING: KING OTTO In the summer of 2004, audiences looked on in disbelief as the Greek National Football Team, a country that had never previously won a single match or even scored a goal in a major tournament, took down the giants of world football to become the unlikeliest of European Champions. This is the film that takes a look at how this incredible event unfolded. When: 15 May, 4:00pm Where: New Farm Cinemas, 701 Brunswick St, New Farm, QLD, 4005 Bookings & Info: Cinema websit...

ADVANCED SCREENING: KING OTTO In the summer of 2004, audiences looked on in disbelief as the Greek National Football Team, a country that had never previously won a single match or even scored a goal in a major tournament, took down the giants of world football to become the unlikeliest of European Champions. This is the film that takes a look at how this incredible event unfolded. When: 15 May, 4:00pm Where: New Farm Cinemas, 701 Brunswick St, New Farm, QLD, 4005 Bookings & Info: Cinema websit...

Members of the Montreal community took part in the annual Yom Hashoah Holocaust commemoration — last Wednesday during the Montreal Holocaust Museums annual remembrance and on Thursday during the annual Montreal city hall-Bnai Brith Canada ceremony. During Thursdays ceremony, Mayor Valérie Plante denounced anti-Semitism, and referencing the 2020 vandalism and attempted arson at the Shaar Hashomayim synagogue in Westmount, said an attack on the Jewish community is an attack on all Montrea...

Lily Ebert speaking on Yom HaShoah Equally poignant was the testimony of Auschwitz survivor and one of ‘The Boys’ Ike Alterman who gave his testimony to his granddaughter Danni and told how he rebuilt his life and made his home in Manchester. Amongst those to speak at the event were Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the actress and campaigner against antisemitism Tracy Ann-Oberman and Sharon Bar-Li, the deputy ambassador of Israel. Thousands lit candles for Yom HaShoah Rabbi Mirvis spoke powerful...

Tyler John Runde 1982 - 2021 Tyler John Runde, 38 years young, passed away unexpectedly in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Jan. 24, 2021. A visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until the time of a Memorial Prayer service at 11:30 a.m., Saturday, March 13 at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville. Rev. Jeff Pedersen will officiate. Memorials may be made to the Tyler Runde Memorial Fund, which can be mailed to the funeral home at PO Box 245, Platteville, ...