Edison Mayor Sam Joshi joins the community at the annual event.
While it’s likely that the screenings of the annual Names, Not Numbers® films at different yeshivot in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut are all well attended, it’s probably not as common that the mayor of the town attends an event.
The film screening at the Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva (RPRY), the 11th Names, Not Numbers® annual project completed at the school, attracted Edison Mayor Sam Joshi and rabbonim representing a few shuls in town. It also brought in hundreds of community members who filled the gymnasium at the school.
The screening was preceded by a dinner for the eighth grade students who participated in the project along with their parents and the Holocaust survivors whom they interviewed.
Names, Not Numbers® is an interactive, multimedia Holocaust oral history film project created by educator Tova Fish-Rosenberg. The program is generously supported by a prominent national foundation, with assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, supported by the German Federal Ministry of Finance and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future.
Harry Glazer is the Middlesex County editor of The Jewish Link. He can be reached at harryglazer615@gmail.com and he welcomes reader feedback. He is very grateful to Adina Federman and Hava Freidenreich for their help with this story.
