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For over six hours Thursday at the Rock Plaza, The University of Miami Hillel honored the six million Jews killed during the Holocaust through remembrance. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., volunteers read the names of victims to a crowd of listeners seated below.
“We’re honoring to remember,” said David Weitzman, a springboard innovation fellow at Hillel. “It’s important to remember, if we don’t history can repeat itself.”
Hillel holds the event annually on April 8, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known has Yom HaShoaha, which traces its origins back to the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Like many Jewish holidays, the commemoration begins at sunrise and ends at sundown.
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Meyers Leonard, center, distributes Passover dinners to Holocaust survivors and Jewish seniors in the Miami area with the help of Rabbi Pinny Andrusier, second from right. (Chabad of Southwest Broward via JTA)
MIAMI (JTA) A recent Shabbat dinner at Rabbi Pinny Andrusier’s home in Hallandale, Florida, was memorable for many reasons.
One was that the featured guest was 7 feet tall, towering over the dozens of kids in attendance the adults, too. Another was that he was a player for South Florida’s favorite NBA team, the Miami Heat.
The guest was Meyers Leonard, who only a few days prior to the Friday-night meal on March 12 had sparked controversy for using an anti-Semitic slur while livestreaming a video game on Twitch.
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Meyers Leonard will meet with members of the South Florida Jewish Community and University of Miami students next week, something that is part of the “learning process” after the former Heat center used an anti-Semitic slur on a video game stream last month.
Leonard, according to WPLG’s Will Mando, will conduct the meeting via Zoom.
Meyers Leonard is set to meet with members of the Jewish community via zoom next Tuesday. University of Miami Hillel partnering with Jewish community relations council to give UM students a chance to be in Q/A. Said to be part of learning process for anti-Semitic slur he made. pic.twitter.com/pgFBoFGj08 Will Manso (@WillManso) April 8, 2021
Teshuvah for Meyers Leonard: Miami’s Jewish community embraces NBA player after he apologizes for anti-Semitic slur April 8, 2021 5:06 pm Meyers Leonard, center, distributes Passover dinners to Holocaust survivors and Jewish seniors in the Miami area with the help of Rabbi Pinny Andrusier, second from right. (Chabad of Southwest Broward)
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MIAMI (JTA) A recent Shabbat dinner at Rabbi Pinny Andrusier’s home in Hallandale, Florida, was memorable for many reasons.
One was that the featured guest was 7 feet tall, towering over the dozens of kids in attendance the adults, too. Another was that he was a player for South Florida’s favorite NBA team, the Miami Heat.