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The B’nai Sholom Temple displays a memorial for the lives lost during the Holocaust.
Local temple to remember victims of the Holocaust By KARENANN FLOUHOUSE
THE PARTHENON Sunday, April 23 is a day of remembrance for the Jewish community in Huntington as they gather to read the names of the people killed in the Holocaust. While many know the International Holocaust Memorial Day is January 27, the Jewish community practices a different memorial day April 19 called Yom Hashoah. This is the day of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising where the Jewish people of Poland resisted the German occupation. “International day is based on the liberation of Auschwitz, which was the Allies,” said Rabbi Jean Englinton of Huntington’s B’nai Sholom Temple. “Our date is connected with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, so it’s based on something that Jews did for themselves as opposed to what other people did for us.” Yom Hashoah is celebrated on the closest Sunday with the Reading of Names, a memorial service started in 1989 by the B’nai B’rith, an international Jewish center. Their goal is to get all the names of the six million victims read. The temple has read about
“Our hope is always that by learning about this epitome of horrible genocides that people can learn how to figure out how to keep other genocides from happening.” - Rabbi Jean Englinton, B’nai Sholom Temple
2,000 names each year since the start of the program. “To read all six million, at 2,000 a day would take eight and a third years,” said Herman Glaser, one of B’nai Sholom Temple’s Reading of Names organizers since 1989. B’nai B’rith gives out the list of names to be read each year and gives the congregations it works with different names each time. This way all six million names will be read internationally.
The B’nai Sholom Temple so far has about 30 people signed up to read the names and expect more volunteers the day of the event. “Everybody gets a chance to read, be it one or two names or 20, whatever they want,” Glaser said. After all the names have been read, the temple will have a short memorial service. It will include a prayer for the dead, songs and the lighting of six candles with one candle representing one million lives. The service is not a religious service and should last about 20 minutes. “Our hope is always that by learning about this epitome of horrible genocides that people can learn how to figure out how to keep other genocides from happening,” Englinton said. The temple is located at the corner of 10th St. and 10th Ave. in Huntington. The Reading of Names is open to the public and starts at 8 a.m. and ends with a closing service starting at 4:30 p.m. Community members are also invited to read names at the service. Karenann Flouhouse can be contacted at flouhouse@marshall.edu.
Herd Holi festival to bring color to campus for third year By CHRISTIAN DAVIS
THE PARTHENON Marshall University’s INTO, in partnership with the Campus Activities Board, Housing and Residence Life and International Student Services, will be on Buskirk Field Friday for Herd Holi. The annual Herd Holi event will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Holi is a Hindu spring festival celebrated in India, also known as the “Festival of Colors” or “Festival of Love.” Holi announces the passing of winter and the arrival of spring. Kenny Jones, student engagement coordinator for INTO Marshall, said the celebration is traditionally held in March, but is pushed until late April because of nicer weather. “This year we focused on getting more departments involved,” Jones said. “Herd Holi had been created before I started working at INTO and last year was the first year that I helped implement it. Seeing the students enjoy such a wonderful cultural experience is what I enjoy most. This is a time when domestic and international students come together to share an experience. The act of throwing colors in celebration of Holi is
“This is a time when domestic and international students come together to share an experience. The act of throwing colors in celebration of Holi is great to watch.” - Kenny Jones, student engagement coordinator for INTO Marshall
great to watch.” Herd Holi is an event that allows students to have one last “hoo-rah” before everyone leaves for summer. The event includes music and dancing for the first part of Holi as the color celebration is being set up. “Working with the students this year and seeing them actively engaged on campus is something I’ve enjoyed the most this school
year,” Jones said. “The INTO students have come to so many events over the course of the 16-17 school year, both INTO events and other campus events. It pleases me to see them branch out and want to experience new things with both international students and domestic students.” Thanks to collaborating with other departments, CAB was able to secure 100 free t-shirts to the first 100 students to come to the event. INTO events are open to all students on campus and INTO will continue to host events over the summer for students who are on campus or still in the Huntington area. Christian Davis can be contacted at davis823@marshall.edu.
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Students participated in the “Festival of Colors” for the second time on campus last year.
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