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U.S. Jews Urged to Observe ”ritual of Remembrance” for

March 18, 1953
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The formation of a committee of leader Jewish educators and laymen to disseminate a ”Ritual of Remembrance”’6,000,000 Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis and for the heroe### ghetto uprisings, was announced here today. The ritual, which is to be ### at the Passover Seder in homes and wherever the Seder is celebrated, w### tributed by the committee over the country through synagogues, temples Jewish schools.

The ritual was prepared by Rufus Learsi, Jewish historian, and is d### “as simple and profoundly moving.” It is performed at the traditional S### before the door is opened for the symbolic entrance of the Prophet Elij### sists of the recital of an original passage in Hebrew, a rendition of it in### and the singing of ”Ani Maamin,” the song of faith in the coming of the which sprang up in the ghettos and liquidation camps. The uprising in The ### ghetto began on the first day of Passover 1943, and this fact, it is point### added force to the Seder ritual.

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