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During the coming week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
will study in memory of the following departed friends.
In addition, Kaddish will be said during the daily minyan.

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Samuel Gluck
Dorothy Goldstein
Leon Kersh
Ida Lowenstein
Alfred Mitteldorf
Pinchas Schwartz
Ida B. Shayne

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Sam Boesky
Aranka Breuer
George Walter Fischer
Samuel R. Greenbaum
Helena Anna Helszewska
Daniel I. Lambert
Pearl Nusbaum
Lotty Partovich
Joseph Bernard Raim
Dr. Morton Simon
Jean Stalrit
Isadore Morris Taylor
Nathan Unrot
Dave Weiner

Elliott Dov Strom
Lena Waldman

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Lillian Beal
Anna Celia Dear
Joseph Freed
Seymour Gallant
Louis Jack Goldberg
Estelle Kaplan
Alta Kazdan
Abe Letvin
Eva Levine
Fannie Markowitz
Hyman Milinsky
Rebecca Plotnick

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Louis Kozel
Sally Lemberg
Sam Stein
Ethel Waldman



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Harry Feldman
Elias Herman
Hyman Kowal

Ida Litvin
Julia Pleasant
Annie Samet
Hilda Schuman

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Esther Brown
Siegfried Hess
Max Karol
Irving M. Moskovitz
Oscar Sherman
Edith Strom

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Phoebe Budnick
Lena Firestone
Samuel Glickman
Bessie Horowitz
Benjamin Krass
Bernard B. Weinberg Wilder
Irving York

Risha Gitel Rosen

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had to pinch myself to make
to celebrate. King Mohammed
sure I wasn’t dreaming. There
VI’s representative for the entire
I was, an Orthodox Israeli
Marrakesh region also attended.
Jew, at a 500-year-old synagogue
Why are Jews in Morocco treated
in Marrakesh, Morocco,
so well? It’s because of the
distributing food parcels
king. During World War II,
to Muslims for Ramadan,
when the Nazis asked the
representing the
king to put together a list of
International Fellowship
Jews, he boldly answered,
of Christians and Jews.
“We don’t have Jews, we
It seemed too good to
have Moroccans,” and
be true. But as I quickly
refused to comply.
learned, it was just
Today’s king, Mohammed
Yael Eckstein
Times of Israel
another day in mystical
VI, is the grandson of King
Morocco, a country that
Mohammed V, who pro-
defies norms, defines
tected his country’s 265,000
tolerance and is home to
Jews. Like his grandfather,
a dwindling population of 2,500
Mohammed VI believes Jews
Jews.
are just as Moroccan — and just
Though Morocco is a Muslim
as important — as Muslims,
country, the bellboy at my hotel
Christians and everyone else. If
told me with a loving smile, Jews
anyone in Morocco messes with
were actually in Morocco 600 years Jews, they are messing with the
before Muslims — when they were
king.
sent out of Jerusalem following the
Many project that in a decade,
destruction of the First Temple.
there won’t be any Jews left in
“This is your home,” the bell-
Morocco. Most of the Moroccan
boy said. “Your people were here
grandmothers have moved to
before mine.”
Israel. Jewish youths have largely
This respectful attitude was the
moved abroad.
prevailing sentiment in my com-
After my four-day journey repre-
munications with every Muslim
senting Christian and Jewish sup-
I met. Moroccans are genuine in
porters of the Fellowship, I deeply
their respect for the Jewish people, understand why it’s so important
love for Moroccan Jews, and awe
that our organization partnered
for the holy rabbis who walked
with Chabad and Mimouna to
their streets and are buried in the
distribute food parcels from the
Jewish cemetery. I nearly cried
country’s ancient synagogues to
when I saw how well the locals
local Muslims for Ramadan. It is
preserve the Jewish cemetery.
clear to me why we must set up a
“Why do you treat the Jews so
Jewish information center in cen-
well?” I asked a Muslim teen who
tral Marrakesh and make sure the
works for an organization called
Jewish cemetery will keep being
Mimouna, whose members are
preserved by local Muslims.
Muslim youths passionate about
I realize how critical it is that we
spreading Jewish history. Mimouna also continue to distribute food
made history by starting a Jewish
parcels to poor Jews on a monthly
studies program at a Moroccan
basis, so they aren’t neglected or
Arab university, along with the
looked at as beggars, but rather
Arab world’s only Holocaust educa- serve as a shining example of the
tion program.
fact that all Jews, Christians and
“Why wouldn’t we treat them
Muslims are responsible to look
well?” he responded.
out for one another.
Morocco is one of the few places
In a country that lives on
where Christians, Muslims and
ancient spiritual stories of holy
Jews coexist in peace and mutual
men and women who once walked
respect. Why?
its streets, what legacy should
One night I attended a Ramadan we leave? That the Jewish people
fast-breaking event — organized
came in peace, left in peace and
by the inspiring local Chabad rabbi were only known for peace.
at an Orthodox synagogue. Dozens
This is what it means to live in
of Jews and Muslims gathered
the vision of God. •

