Yom Hashoah – Holocaust Day of Remembrance – Sunday, May 5, 6:00 PM

Doors open at 6:00 PM, Film Starts at 6:15 PM. A screening of Regina Jonas, The First Female Rabbi Who Was Almost Forgotten. Regina Jonas longed to become a rabbi for most of her life but struggled with the restrictions against women in higher education and rabbinical studies. She continued to lobby for ordination, which she achieved in 1935. She worked as a pastoral counselor at the Jewish Hospital in Berlin and preached at liberal synagogues as the deportations of rabbis began. Even after her deportation to Theresienstadt she continued to preach, teach, and inspire her fellow inmates until her final deportation to Auschwitz. RSVP required to Office@etzhayim.org. Refreshments provided.