{"id":30868,"date":"2018-11-16T03:49:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T11:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=30868"},"modified":"2018-11-15T19:13:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T03:13:13","slug":"remembering-our-fallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2018\/11\/16\/remembering-our-fallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering our fallen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>(photo by\u00a0Yoram Adler)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, a small group of Jewish community members gathered in the Jewish section of Mountain View Cemetery to commemorate Canadians who have served in the armed forces. Organized and led by Rabbi Steven L. Nemetz, a member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 179, the ceremony was attended by more than 30 people, including children, nieces and nephews, and grandchildren of men and women who served in the Allied armed forces. Many attendees brought with them wartime photos of their uniformed family member(s).<\/p>\n<p>The 100-bell Bells of Peace ceremony marked 100 years since the end of the First World War. Each person present at the memorial was invited to step forward to ring a ship\u2019s bell after the announcement of their name and the name, relation and rank or service of their fathers, uncles, aunts, and other relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Kaddish was recited. \u201cLast Post\u201d was played by a cadet trumpeter and a piper played the lament, which recalls the end of battle, and \u201cAmazing Grace.\u201d The commemoration opened with O Canada and concluded with Hatikvah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(photo by\u00a0Yoram Adler) On Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, a small group of Jewish community members gathered in the Jewish section of Mountain View Cemetery to commemorate Canadians who have served in the armed forces. Organized and led by Rabbi Steven L. Nemetz, a member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 179, the ceremony was attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2426,3189,8408],"class_list":["post-30868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-remembrance-day","tag-second-world-war","tag-steven-nemetz"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}