{"id":60533,"date":"2021-04-08T00:55:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T06:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=60533"},"modified":"2021-04-08T00:55:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T06:55:18","slug":"yom-hashoah-virtual-event-airs-tonight-registration-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/yom-hashoah-virtual-event-airs-tonight-registration-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Yom Ha&#8217;Shoah virtual event airs tonight; registration required"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Greater New Orleans Jewish community is invited to join tonight, April 8, in a virtual memorial to Yom Ha&#8217;Shoah, also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48957\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YomHashoah19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48957\" class=\"wp-image-48957 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YomHashoah19-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YomHashoah19-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YomHashoah19-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YomHashoah19-1024x703.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/206;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48957\" class=\"wp-image-48957 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YomHashoah19-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YomHashoah19-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YomHashoah19-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/YomHashoah19-1024x703.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-48957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The large wooden menorah constructed by Holocaust survivor Isak Borenstein has been a focal point of previous memorials. (Photo by Alan Smason)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The centerpiece of the program administered by the New Orleans Holocaust Memorial Committee is to honor those Holocaust survivors who settled in New Orleans as well as their progeny.<\/p>\n<p>The link to register for the program is required. <a href=\"https:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/eventReg?oeidk=a07eho1uyaa4d1d06af&amp;oseq=&amp;c=&amp;ch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The link can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A procession of survivors, family members and Jewish religious leaders will be featured in several segments that have been filmed earlier at the Uptown JCC.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Judith Siegel of Temple Judea of Coral Gables will introduce the story of David Schaecter, who was a member of the Miami Jewish community following his escape from Auschwitz during World War II.&nbsp; His story is told in the documentary &#8220;A Call To Remember.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to local support, the program is also made possible by the Israel Engagement Fund, a program of the Jewish Community Centers Association and by several local generous donors.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Yom%20Ha%27Shoah%20virtual%20event%20airs%20tonight%3B%20registration%20required\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2453],"tags":[2028,8790,8795,8788,2392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60534,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60533\/revisions\/60534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}