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Yizkor. “Remember…Don’t forget” (Deuteronomy 25:17&19). Yizkor, The Memorial Prayer, is a very popular custom, if I may use an inappropriate word, mainly in the Ashkenazi world. On the last day of each of the three Biblically ordained Pilgrim Festivals, Pesach, Shavuot, and Sucot, we add memorial prayers for departed parents or other lost relatives. Although remembering the dead goes back…
My late father left his position as Principal Rabbi of the Federation of Synagogues in London to realize his dream of establishing a Jewish school that would combine the best of secular education with a good Jewish education and religious experience. He became a spokesman for Jewish education at a time when it was not…