Ideas
Here are ways to participate in the Remember Us Project: for more ways to participate please read our newsletters archive.
- Introduce your Torah portion by reading the name of your lost child and his/her short biography. Know that that child is with you in spirit as you read your portion.
- Research where your lost child came from. Learn about his/her family back round, language, and culture. Use the following websites to get started: www.yadvashem.org, www.jewishgen.org, www.mjhnyc.org
- Choose a date that will be the day you honor him/her every year. This date could be the date of your Bar/Bat Mitzvah, the death date of the lost child, Yom Kippur, Yom Hashoah, or some other date significant to you and your family. Say Kaddish or study that week's Torah portion b’shem the child you are remembering.
- Make a web site just for your bar/bat mitzvah. Include a page about Remember Us and the child you are remembering. Here are some examples:
- Connect remembering the lost child to something in your D’var Torah.
- Invite all the students in your class to take on the mitzvah of remembering a lost child.
- Make a tallit with the name of the lost child sewn on it and donate it to your synagogue or a synagogue in Israel or Eastern Europe. Ask your Rabbi/Cantor/Teacher for help with this.
- Help the poor in your community in the name of your lost child.
- Visit Israel in the name of your lost child.
- Take an active role in your community’s Yom Hashoah commemoration.
- Research your own family tree and add the lost child's name to your family tree. See www.jewishgeneaology.org.
- Plant a tree on Tu B’Shevat in the name of the lost child.