Grammy-winning Cellist Lynn Harrell & Violinist Helen Nightengale to be Featured at Beth Shir Shalom Yom HaShoah Service

 In keeping with its spirit as the “Home of the Song of Peace,” it is only fitting that Beth Shir Shalom’s observance of Yom HaShoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day—features music. 

World-renowned cellist Lynn Harrell and violinist Helen Nightengale, will join Beth Shir Shalom’s Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels and Cantor Ken Cohen at the temple’s Shabbat service.  Both temple members, Harrell and Nightengale are also husband and wife.

Unique to the Beth Shir Shalom commemoration of the Holocaust is the inclusion of the nearly six million others—among them, homosexuals, mentally and physically disabled and political and religious opposition—who were also murdered.

Refreshments will be served at the oneg (meaning “joy”), immediately following the Shabbat service.  Most often consisting of sweets, the refreshments served at Beth Shir Shalom’s oneg for this evening will be selections from the book “In Memory’s Kitchen.” This unique publication tells the story, and preserves the recipes, of the women of the Terezin concentration camp who collected, hid and ultimately spirited away their recipes so that the women could “survive” through the dishes they created.

 The Shabbat service in open to the community.  For more information call 310-453-3361 or visit www.bethshirshalom.org.

About Yom HaShoah

 Shoah, also known as Holocaust is from a Greek word meaning “sacrificing by fire.” The date for Yom HaShoah was selected by the Israeli Parliament in 1951, as a day to educate young people about the heroism and resistance of the Jewish people against the Nazis and to remember those who suffered. Throughout Israel, sirens are blown two times during the day of Yom HaShoah, signaling the beginning of a two-minute period of silence—a time for reflection and remembrance of the six million Jews who perished.