WAM's next Scholar in Residence

Scholar in Residence Feb 10-11

Summary of Events

Feb 10, 5:45 pm: Friday night services followed by Shabbos dinner for those with reservations. 

8:45 pm: Keynote address by Rabbi Simcha Willig. 

Babysitting will be available

Feb 11, 9:00 am: Shabbos morning services with special sermon from Rabbi Willig. 

3:30 pm: Women’s class, details TBA. 

5:30 pm: Mincha. 

Saturday night: Melava Malkah, details TBA.

Dinner reservation information: The cost for the dinner is $14 for adults 12 and older and $11 for children 4-11. Children 3 and younger are free. Your check is your reservation. Please mail your check (made out to Arlene Rosenthal) to Arlene Rosenthal, 2221 Portside Way, Charleston, SC 29407. The deadline for reservations is Friday, February 3. Reservations will not be accepted past the deadline. Please do this right away as we do want everyone to join us for the dinner. 

Scholarships are available if needed. Please email westashleyminyan@gmail.com for more information. All emails will be kept strictly confidential.

The Passing of Dora Love

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Dora Love, pictured above at left with Eva Spangenthal in April 2011, passed away last week in Colchester, UK, after a brief illness. Dora was a Holocaust survivor and an advocate of tolerance.  Where-ever she went, she shared her experiences and her remarkable story, which included the recovery and resettlement of children who had survived through World War II in hiding. She visited Charleston in late April 2011 and spoke at the Charleston JCC about the rescue of the Children at Blankenese, in Hamburg, Germany, which she considered her greatest achievement.

While in Charleston, Dora also spoke at the Holocaust Memorial March, and met with students at Addlestone Hebrew Academy and Porter Gaud Middle and High Schools.


My family and I were privileged to be friends of Dora and her husband Frank and family in Johannesburg as far back as the '50s, and following their move back to England in the late '70s. 

Dora is survived by a son and daughter and their respective families, and will be remembered by many thousands more, whose lives she touched with her courageous spirit and her ever-moving testimony. 

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