News items about United Hebrew Congregation Terre Haute.
That 2016 United Hebrew Congregation Terre Haute B’nai Mitzvah class, including Karen Harris, Debra Israel, Patty Lewis, Wilma Turetzky and Sara Wormser-Waltermire, will unite to officiate Shabbat services at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 12, 2017, in the Vestry Room.
All are invited to attend. The B’nai Mitzvah class will sponsor an oneg after the service.
Sam Richardson, a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Sociology, University of Virginia and primary investigator with The Small Jewish Communities Project, has invited United Hebrew Congregation to participate in a national survey of small Jewish congregations.
United Hebrew Congregation’s Yom HaShoah observance on Sunday, April 23, brought together guests and participants from the region and community to remember victims of the Holocaust and honor those who work to preserve human life and dignity.
Here, we share audio and photos from the event, co-sponsored with CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center, at Temple Israel.
Yom HaShoah v’Hageveruh: The Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and the Heroism was enacted by the Israeli Parliament in 1951 to honor the victims of the Shoah. Of equal importance, this Day of Remembrance honors the resistance — both active and passive — as Jews did resist their tormentors.
United Hebrew Congregation’s Yom HaShoah observance, held Sunday, April 23, in Temple Israel’s sanctuary, honored the 11 million victims of the Holocaust: the Jewish six million and the five million non-Jewish victims.