Temple Beth Torah, a reform synagogue in Fremont, has been part of the Tri-City Interfaith Ministerial Association for several decades during which the Association organized an annual Interfaith Yom HaShoah service to memorialize the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. In recent years, Temple Beth Torah has taken the lead in organizing the Yom HaShoah commemoration, identifying a survivor or scholar to speak at the event, and preparing and holding the service on its premises. Jack Weinstein, a decades-long member of the Temple who established and for decades led the Bay Area chapter of Facing History and Ourselves and arranged many, many of my Bay Area talks, invited me to speak at this year’s Yom HaShoah event, and I gladly agreed. More than 70 people were present or on Zoom at this service.



