Monday, April 20 7:30 Yom HaShoah Service - Featuring Holocaust Survivor Judith Meisels (password: shalom18)
Judith Meisels was born in Budapest, Hungary on July 23, 1938. Judith was an only child until her younger brother was born after the war. As a very young child during the war, she was in hiding, by herself and with her parents and was on the run with her parents. Judith and her parents were caught and miraculously escaped death numerous times. Judith was liberated in the spring of 1945, by the Russian Army. After the war, she and her family stayed in Budapest, Hungary. Her parents survived, but most of her family was murdered. Her father died in 1955 when Judith was 16 ½, and her brother was 8.
She continued her schooling in Budapest until after the Hungarian revolution was crushed by the Russians in the fall of 1956. Judith was 18 and a student studying to be a concert pianist at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest at this time. Due to the political upheaval and rumors of neo-Nazi resurgence in Austria and Germany she escaped the Hungarian Communist regime with her 10 year old brother. They reunited with her mother and her uncle’s family in Vienna, Austria.
They then moved to the United States at the end of December, 1956. She continued her college education majoring in liberal arts and music, while she also worked to earn an income. She married her husband, a scientist and mechanical engineer, in May 1964, and has two children. Her son is one of the top computer systems architects for the US Military and her daughter is an international corporate attorney now working on starting her own Internet entrepreneurship. Judith transmits her love for music to her students in her successful piano studio in the Deal- Ocean Township area.
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Lifelong Learning “Samuel Kassow, Charles Northam Professor of History at Trinity College and author of "Who Will Write Our History," gives a talk at the College of the Holy Cross on "Time Capsules Under the Rubble: The Secret Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto," on April 5, 2017. Kassow tells the story of historian Emanuel Ringelblum and his secret organization, Oyneg Shabes, which kept a record of Jewish life in wartime Poland and buried thousands of documents in tins and milk cans under the Warsaw Ghetto.”
Chhange’s annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration includes Holocaust Survivor testimony and a candle-lighting ceremony featuring local Holocaust Survivors.This year's virtual program will include music provided by the Marlboro High School Choir & Quartet.
We invite Holocaust Survivors, their families, student groups, college students, and the public to attend this virtual commemorative program on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 beginning at 9:30 a.m. EST.
Admission is free.
This event will take place on Facebook Live. No registration is required. Please go to Chhange's Facebook Live page at 9:30 am EST on April 21st to watch the ceremony.
Temple Shaari Emeth is a sponsor of this live event. A link to watch the concert will be emailed to our members on Friday 4/24/2020. Sorry, but the terms of our sponsorship do not allow us to share the link and password with non-members.
In celebration of Israel’s Quadruple Chai 72nd birthday, communities across America will come together to co-host and celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut with a live virtual concert event. Israeli vocalist and performer Hadar Orshalimy will share her acclaimed Yom Ha’atzmaut Storyteller concert, featuring some of the most recognizable and iconic songs in Israeli history. Hadar, whose audiences have included the likes of Barack Obama, George W Bush, and Ehud Barack, will be backed by her husband and Jewish pop-musician, Sheldon Low on guitar and vocals. Between the music, Hadar will add meaning and context to the songs, weaving behind-the-scenes stories of the songs and the Israeli composers who wrote them, along with anecdotes from her own life growing up in Israel. Viewers will be invited to share comments and photos of their celebrations to be aired on the broadcast, between the music and appearances from special guests and celebrities.
