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14A                             March 2020                                                              COMMUNITY FOCUS




        Diocese of Venice’s annual

        “Yom HaShoah Hour of Remembrance”


              ach year, the Diocese of  Ven-  an organization  dedicated  to locating   work with the Jewish community  of   Jewish community.”
              ice in Florida hosts a service   the sites of mass graves of Jewish vic-  France and was appointed Secretary to   The Hour of Remembrance will
        Ein commemoration  of the  Ho-        tims of the Nazi mobile-killing units in   the French Conference of Bishops for   begin with elementary school students
        locaust as an interreligious  gather-  the former Soviet Union. He received   Relations with the Jewish community   participating in the solemn reading of
        ing bringing members of the Catholic   the Legion d’honneur, France’s highest   and an advisor to the Vatican on rela-  the names of concentration camps such
        and Jewish communities  together  to   honor, for his work documenting  the   tions with Judaism.                 as Auschwitz and Dachau.  Then stu-
        promote  peace  and  solidarity  among   Holocaust.                            Bishop Frank J. Dewane has host-   dents from Cardinal Mooney Catholic
        all peoples. This year, the Diocese of    In 1978,  Father  Desbois worked   ed this annual prayer service since   School in Sarasota will light 13 candles
        Venice’s “Yom HaShoah Hour of Re-     as a math teacher for the French gov-  becoming  Bishop of the Diocese in   in honor of the six million  Jews  and
        membrance” will be held at 2:30 p.m.   ernment in  Africa. He later worked   2007. “This day is one way, of many,   seven million others who were system-
        on Sunday, April 26 at Epiphany Ca-   for Mother Theresa in Calcutta, where   in which the Catholic Church in South-  atically killed during the Holocaust.
        thedral, 350 Tampa Ave. W., Venice.   he helped set up homes for the dying.   west Florida, in union with Pope       The  service  also recognizes the
            The guest speaker will be Father   After being ordained in 1986 at the   Francis, wishes  to show  friendship   survivors of  the  Holocaust  and  their
        Patrick  Desbois, a French Roman      age of 31, he became the Superior of   with our Jewish  brothers and sisters,   descendants, the living witnesses, en-
        Catholic  priest,  former  head  of  the   the Grand Seminary in Prado, Lyon.   and  to  reaffirm  our  dedication  to  re-  suring that remembrance of the Holo-


        Commission for Relations with Juda-   From 1992-1999, he served as Secre-   spect, dialogue and solidarity with the   caust never fades away.
        ism of the French Bishops’ Conference   tary of Jewish Relations for Cardinals
        and consultant to the  Vatican. He is   Decourtray, Jean Balland  and Louis-  Area cantors to sing
        the founder of the “Yahad-In Unum,”   Marie Billé. In 1999, he requested to

        A special Erev Shabbat                                                      together on March 2

                                                                                    By Cantor Riselle Bain
        service for Temple Beth El                                                           hat’s better than one cantor?   through  financial  donations,  BACA  By Rabbi Peter Kasdan | This program is sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee


                                                                                             Six of them, when they have
        By Sandy Clark, Past President                                              Wthe chance to come together          usually offers an annual concert only in   n the spring of 2019, the  Temple
                                                                                                                          Tampa. But this year, the organization
                                                                                                                                                               Beth Israel (TBI) Board of Trust-
                fter  many years of being  a   nizations, Meals on Wheels PLUS and   to offer a special concert combining all   has added a second one for the Sarasota- Iees adopted the plan of twinning

                Reform congregation, but not   Habitat for Humanity as our major com-  their  talent.  It’s not easy getting  can-  Manatee community as well.  our congregation with the Beit Daniel
        Abeing a member of the Union          munity efforts to help our neighbors.   tors to perform together because of the   Since  its inception,  BACA has  Synagogue Community in Tel Aviv, Is-

        for  Reform  Judaism  (URJ),  Temple      And so, on Friday night, January   distance between them and the obliga-  awarded more than $50,000 in concert  rael. Beit Daniel had been the lifelong
        Beth El Bradenton/Lakewood Ranch’s    24,  Greg Miller from the URJ presen-  tions they have to their respective con-  donations  for scholarships to Conser- special project of TBI members Ruth
        dream came true.                      ted  us with our beautiful  charter  that   gregations. But the Bay Area Cantorial   vative and Reform cantorial students.  and Gerard Daniel, z”l. Since Ruth’s
            Although we practiced Reform Ju-  will hang proudly in our entrance.    Association  (BACA)  has  been  doing   It has also sponsored an anthology of
        daism, used the Reform prayer book,                                         so for 17 years.                      music for High Holy Days commis-
        have a wonderful Rabbi Michael Stern-                                          This year, cantors serving congre-  sioned through  Transcontinental Mu-
        field  and  Cantor  Deborah  Bard,  we                                      gations in Sarasota, Venice, St. Peters-  sic, the music publishing arm of the

        thought we never had a large enough                                         burg, Tampa and Sebring will present   Union of Reform Judaism.
        congregation to join the URJ. All that                                      “B’chol  Libi,  With  All My Heart,”     The Cantors volunteer their time
        has changed for the better.                                                 songs of love sure to gladden and     and musical artistry preparing ensem-
            The  URJ now has programs  for                                          touch hearts, on Monday, March 2 at   ble and solo pieces. Though a sugges-
        smaller  congregations  and  with  our                                      7:00 p.m. at the Jewish Congregation   ted donation for the concert is $18, any
        move further east in Manatee County,                                        of Venice, 600 N. Auburn Road.        amount  will be gratefully  accepted.
        our congregation and religious school                                          Formed  to  bring  beautiful  tradi-  For further information, please call the
        are growing. We have become a small                                         tional and contemporary Jewish music   Jewish Congregation of Venice office,


                                                 Cantor Deborah Bard, Greg Miller (from
        but mighty  force in our community       the URJ), Ron Eiseman (Temple Beth El   to the wider community and assisting   weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.,
        with our joining two wonderful orga-      President), Rabbi Michael Sternfi eld  cantorial  students with their studies   at 941.484.2022.

















































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