The ceremony was also live-streamed to allow friends and family overseas to participate.
Donny Morris, 19, of New Jersey, one of 45 people killed in the crush on Mount Meron during Lag B’Omer celebrations. (Courtesy)
Almost 70,000 people watched online.
“I have so many questions but little to no answers,” sobbed his mother Mirlana Morris, calling his death “a pain more than a mother can bear.”
“But what I do know for sure is that you were loved by so many,” she said.
“We all always knew how wonderful you were, but in the last 72 hours countless people reached out to me to say how you touched so many lives with your kindness and love,” she said.
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A photo of Nachman Doniel Morris, a student who died in the stampede at Mount Meron in Israel on Lag bâOmer, was shared on social media. (Twitter via JTA)
Donny Morris, the nephew of Rabbi Yechiel Morris of Young Israel of Southfield, was among those lost in the tragedy.
The Detroit Jewish community gathered over Zoom Sunday night to mourn the loss of 45 lives at Mount Meron on Lag bâOmer, April 29. At least 150 were injured in the tragedy.Â
Representatives of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and clergy from many streams of Judaism remembered the victims and shared their collective grief with the people of Israel through prayer and community.Â