Congregation Shaare Shalom’s First Yom HaShoah Program
A Screening of the Documentary Complicit
Congregation Shaare Shalom hosted an unforgettable evening commemorating Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Congregants and community members alike filled the room in anticipation of the showing of the film Complicit, directed by award winning director Robert Krakow.
Rabbi Avraham Benhamu, leader of Shaare Shalom’s youth minyan, led the crowd in a moving rendition of the Star Spangled Banner and Hatikvah. This was followed by the congregation’s high school students participating in a candle-lighting ceremony with a moment of silence commemorating those who perished in the Holocaust, those who survived, and those who aided the Jews that were able to escape.
Share Shalom’s own Rabbi Avi Harari, citing events of the Torah, spoke about the importance of memorializing past life impacting events, because they help us complete our connection to the present and to our future. His own grandfather’s experience as a concentration camp survivor only served to prove this idea true.
Salomon Cohen introduced Mr. Krakow to a rapt audience. Solomon is a prominent shul member who has spent countless hours organizing many of the synagogue’s events and was responsible for coordinating this evening.





















