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Stockton to host Mitzvah Zecher Avot Service at Rodef Shalom Cemetery

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EGG HARBOR TOWNSNHIP - A Mitzvah Zecher Avot Service (The Good Deed of Remembering Family) will be held 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 10 at the Holocaust Memorial Section at the Rodef Sholom Cemetery, 6691 Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township.

This free and open to the public remembrance service is designed for Holocaust survivors and their families who represent the generations born after the Holocaust when World War II ended. The names of Holocaust survivors will be read at the ceremony.

For questions, or if you are unable to attend in-person, a Zoom link is available by calling 609-652-4699 or emailing Gail Rosenthal, the director of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center, at [email protected].