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Englewood Holocaust program to feature choir
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By Jewish Standard
Published on 04/25/2008
 


Shirah, the community chorus directed by Matthew Lazar, inset, will perform at the Cong. Ahavath Torah Yom HaShoah program.

Shirah, the community chorus of the Kaplen JCC on the Palisades in Tenafly, will perform for Englewood’s annual Yom HaShoah program on Thursday, May 1, at 8 p.m., at Cong. Ahavath Torah, 240 Broad Ave. The event is co-sponsored by Ahavath Torah, the East Hill Synagogue, Kehillat Kesher, Kol HaNeshamah, and Temple Sinai of Bergen County in Tenafly.

The chorus will be directed by its founding director and conductor, Matthew Lazar. Among the speakers are author Martin Schiller, who will discuss his memoir "A Boy’s Journey Through the Holocaust," and Rabbis Bruce Block of Temple Sinai and Chaim Poupko of Ahavath Torah.

For information, call (201) 568-1315.