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Remembering for Life: Honoring the Past, Guaranteeing the Future
A New Resource on the
Shoah that Celebrates Life
Memory is about choice. We can remember in ways that provoke pain or that
challenge us to take from the past lessons that will help us to live more
fully and create a better world today. REMEMBERING FOR LIFE, a new resource
for rabbis and synagogues from CLAL, does just that. A compilation of
stories gathered from the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation’s
collection of over 52,000 interviews, it allows people who have experienced
life at its worst to teach us about life at its best.
This moving volume is organized as a beautiful addition to the weekly Torah
readings. The stories, matched to the themes of the week’s parshas, teach
about life from men and women from across the globe survivors, liberators,
hidden children, and resistance fighters who share a unique capacity to
teach us about life and the importance of memory in ways that point as much
to the future as to the past. In addition, selections are included for
several of the holidays.
This exceptional book, inspired by the vision of Sherman Jacobson and
through the generous support of a large group of caring donors, offers
rabbis a new way to bring the memory of the Holocaust to a younger
generation – one that will not be able to rely on the direct experience of
the survivors to help understand what happened during the nightmare.
Conceived and edited by Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, CLAL’s Vice President, each
short passage provides the opportunity to understand the lessons of the
Shoah as lessons of life, not death.
Read alone or as part of the weekly service, this special resource presents
a new way to honor memory, providing a unique reflection on each week’s
teaching. But whether interpreted alone or with the community, REMEMBERING
FOR LIFE will make each week’s Torah portion come alive, creating new memory
and wisdom.
For rabbis and synagogues interested in buying a copy of REMEMBERING FOR
LIFE, please send a check for $18 (includes postage and handling) to CLAL,
440 Park Avenue South, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10016-8012. For orders of 25
or more, the cost is $15 per copy. Credit card orders may be placed by
telephone at 212-779-3300, ext. 104
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