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A Jewish memorial service or prayer for the dead recited usually in the synagogue on Yom Kippur, on the last day of Passover, on Shemini Atzereth, and on the second day of Shabuoth.

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  • The word yizkor means "to remember" and refers to a special prayer said on behalf of family members who have passed away.
  • At yizkor services, many of us will remember one of the women in this community who shaped contemporary Mt. Airy and who died this past year:
  • Shafer runs off a list of strange-Jew-in-a-stranger-place features the Times has run going back to 1996, along with a yizkor for the sub-genre of last-synagogue-in...
  • For the person saying yizkor, it can be a very important reflective moment.
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