More than 2,500 Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform rabbis in the United States, responding to a request from the Synagogue Council of America, will lead their congregations in commemorating this coming week-end the twentieth anniversary of the burning of the Synagogues in Germany, it was announced today by Rabbi Theodore L, Adams of New York City, president of the Synagogue Council. The Council is the central coordinating agency representing the national rabbinic and congregational organizations of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jewry.
Rabbi Adams declared that “the entire Jewish community will recall at services this Sabbath the savage episode of the wholesale burning of synagogues in Germany which began on November 9, 1938, the infamous “Crystal Night.” The Jewish people, assembled in their sanctuaries, will remember with pain that the destruction of their synagogues 20 years ago signaled the start of Hitler’s two-day pogroms against the Jews, which culminated in the greatest holocaust in human history.
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