{"id":70787,"date":"2020-01-27T14:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/holocaust-memorial-day-2020\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:20:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:20:52","slug":"holocaust-memorial-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/holocaust-memorial-day-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Holocaust Memorial Day 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-226\" src=\"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Candles.jpg\" alt=\"lots of lovely candles\" width=\"180\" height=\"256\" hspace=\"15\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To honour the memory of all those who suffered and perished under Nazi persecution during World War II, the Rev Cedric Blakey, Convener of the Interfaith Relations Committee will today (27 January) attend Interfaith Scotland\u2019s national Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Scottish Parliament on behalf of the Scottish Episcopal Church.<\/p>\n<p>This prayer was written specially for Holocaust Memorial Day 2020 which is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp. It was written by Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg, President of the Council of Christians and Jews, and Senior Rabbi of Masorti Judaism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>E\u2019l De\u2019ot<\/em>, God who knows,<br \/>\nGod who says <em>Immo anochi betzarah<\/em>, \u2018I am with you in your troubles\u2019,<br \/>\nBe with us, instruct us, guide us.<br \/>\nGive us eyes to see, ears to hear, a heart to care.<br \/>\nDiscomfort our conscience, dispel indifference.<br \/>\nDemand of us the determination to name and call out hatred, in ourselves, our society, the world, anywhere, everywhere.<br \/>\nPrevent us from despairing of the power of goodness, compassion, courage and faith.<br \/>\nImbue us with loving kindness to cure the wounds which can be healed and tend with gentle understanding those beyond our repair.<br \/>\nOpen our hearts to the intricate, destructible wonder and fragile privilege of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To honour the memory of all those who suffered and perished under Nazi persecution during World War II, the Rev Cedric Blakey, Convener of the Interfaith Relations Committee will today (27 January) attend Interfaith Scotland\u2019s national Holocaust Memorial Day event at the Scottish Parliament on behalf of the Scottish Episcopal Church. This prayer was written [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73201,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70787\/revisions\/73201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}