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Volume 133
Number 53
Published Weekly Since 1887
AS SYNAGOGUE CONGREGATIONS,
Holocaust remembrance groups and
educational institutions gathered last
week via Zoom to mark the second Yom
HaShoah observed during the pandemic,
speakers for those events considered the
thematic confl uence of two very diff erent,
era-defi ning events.

What they found, mostly, was that the
pandemic had its own say in how it would
be worked into the commemoration
ceremonies. Aft er all, no one was unaware
of why the speeches, presentations and
testimonies that they heard were delivered
via Zoom. Th e pandemic gave shape to
Yom HaShoah, according to those same
speakers, but that was about it.

“It was more like adapting to how we
had previously presented presentations,”
said Geoff rey Quinn, education director
at the Holocaust Awareness Museum and
Education Center.

HAMEC provides “anywhere between
200-300” programs for Holocaust educa-
tion in the region and beyond throughout
the year, bringing survivor testimony to
classrooms, synagogues and other groups.

Volunteers fi nish distributing kosher meals in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

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Kosher Meal Program
Fights Food Insecurity
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WHEN YONATON YARES started
distributing kosher meals to families
in the parking lot of his synagogue last
May, he had no idea how much the meal
assistance program would grow over the
coming months.

His initial goal was to provide nutri-
tious kosher food for children who were
not receiving meals in school due to
remote learning, and about 200 families
signed up to pick up the meals from
Young Israel of Cherry Hill in New Jersey.

Word of the program spread quickly,
and it began to draw families from across
southern and central New Jersey as well as
Philadelphia. Within a few months, Yares
and his volunteers moved to Joyce Kilmer
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