BREVARD — Sacred Heart Church was filled to capacity Oct. 31 for an interfaith service of remembrance entitled “Remembering the Tree of Life Synagogue.”
Speakers included the current president of the Jewish community in Brevard, Howard Rock, and the man who helped found the community, Norm Bossert. Other speakers represented the Lutheran Church, the Unitarian Universalists, the Center for Spiritual Wisdom and the NAACP.
Marvin Barg, the cantor of the Jewish community, and Tom Currie of Sacred Heart Church provided appropriate music. Names of the victims were read aloud during the service, and Barg cantored “El Maleh Rahamim” (“God full of compassion”), the Jewish prayer for the souls of the departed, to close the service.
— Dorice Narins, correspondent