American Jewry was urged today by a committee of rabbinical and lay leaders to make wide use of a special “Ritual of Remembrance,” commemorating the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews, at forthcoming Passover Seders.
The “Ritual,” newly-published in a form that can be easily inserted into the Passover Haggadah, is already being widely used in sedorem in thousands of homes and institutions, according to Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the American Jewish Congress, and Conservative rabbinical leader, and Philip M. Klutznick, president of B’nai B’rith.
The “Ritual,” written by Rufus Learsi, Jewish historian, is “serving as an effective aid in keeping alive in the hearts of our people a memory which we must not allow to perish,” the two leaders said.
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