Tonight's schedule:

• Veterans Shabbat Dinner - 5pm (Must RSVP  by 11/4 - see below)
• Shabbat Worship honoring our Veterans - 6:30pm (note the earlier start time for services)
• Oneg & Guest Speaker, sponsored by Sisterhood - 7:30pm

Prior to tonight's Shabbat service honoring our Veterans, Beth Or Veterans and Active Service Personnel are invited to attend a special dinner, with their meal provided at no cost courtesy of the Arnold Berkowitz Memorial Fund for Veterans. Friends and family of veterans who would like to attend are welcome. Contact Barbara Murtha for the friends/family price and payment, and to RSVP for the dinner, no later than 11/4.

Beth Or's veterans and active service personnel will be honored during tonight's Shabbat service which features patriotic music and honors on the bimah. 

The service will be followed by an Oneg with Guest Speaker, Fabulous Flores who will talk about veteran liberator, Dr. Leon Bass. This program is sponsored by Sisterhood. See below details about our speaker and the topic.

About our speaker: 

Fabulous F. Flores received her Master of Arts degree in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Richard Stockton University of New Jersey. Prior to this, she graduated Penn State University with degrees in Journalism and Jewish studies. Her areas of focus include highlighting the experience of the untold stories and victims of mass atrocities. Fabulous’ thesis work, which she has named, “Reading the Silences: The Suppressed Voices of the Black Victims in the Holocaust” aspires to correct an erasure of history. During her time as a student, she worked for the Museum of Jewish Heritage and The Holocaust Awareness Museum as an education intern. Fabulous hopes to be able to incorporate the story of black victims into the field of Holocaust studies in order to provide a holistic study of the Third Reich.

About the topic:

Dr. Leon Bass is a Veteran Liberator. He has dedicated much of his life as a teacher, a school administrator, and a speaker, to fighting racism wherever it exists. As a nineteen-year-old soldier serving in a segregated unit of the U.S. Army, Leon Bass participated in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. That moment changed his life. “I was an angry soldier,” says Bass. “I was being asked to fight for freedom while at the same time, as a black man, I was constantly being told in many ways that I wasn’t good enough to have that freedom.”