CSR Participates in White Plains Communal Yom Hashoah

On Thursday, April 12th, the annual Westchester Countywide Yom Hashoah Holocaust Commemoration took place in White Plains. The ceremony began with the sounding of a shofar, an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's horn, used for Jewish religious purposes. Following the shofar blowing, there was a procession of 25 Torahs that were rescued from the Holocaust. Many Holocaust Torah scrolls have now
found homes in synagogues in the Westchester area, including at Community Synagogue of Rye.

The Community Synagogue of Rye Holocaust scroll "once lived in the Alt Neu Shul in Prague. Prior to World War II, the Nazis confiscated it, along with hundreds of scrolls with the idea of creating a museum to a destroyed people. When that dark period in our people's history came to an end, the scrolls were discovered languishing in a warehouse by some U.S. soldiers. They were sent to London, England where, upon the creation of the Memorial Scrolls Trust, they were sent to over 1,000 congregations worldwide."

After the Torah procession, a candle-lighting ceremony took place. Rabbi Daniel Gropper led the Kaddish and addressed the gathering with some personal words in remembrance about Yom Hashoah.