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Local Congregations Remember the Shoah

Rabbi Raphael Ostrovsky
Rabbi Raphael Ostrovsky of Munster, IN, at Congregation Am Echad in Park Forest. (Photo: Wendy Heise)
"The first ones to be destroyed were the children…."
– Yitzhak Katzenelson
The First Ones

 

Park Forest, IL—(ENEWSPF)— Members of six Jewish congregations from the South Suburbs and northwest Indiana gathered at Congregation Am Echad on Westwood Drive last Wednesday for the annual observance of Yom Hashoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day. Shoah is a Hebrew word meaning ‘whirlwind,’…

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