Sinai Chapels, a family-owned funeral home serving the Jewish community for over three generations has made a generous donation to The Kupferberg Yiddish Cinema at the new Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center & Archives at Queensborough Community College.
Sharing in this effort to provide our community members and students with exceptional events establishes Sinai Chapels as a leader in supporting the mission of the Kupferberg Holocaust Center to educate current and future generations about the ramifications of unbridled prejudice, explained Dr. Eduardo J. Marti, President of Queensborough Com munity College.
Michael Resnick, President of Sinai Chapels in Fresh Meadows, added, Through our new Comrnunity Service Initiative, we're extremely pleased to help support the Kupferberg Holocaust Center.
The Kupferberg Yiddish Cinema, which begins this fall, will feature Der Purimshpeiler-The Jester,Yidl Mitn Fidel, and Mamele-TheLittle Girl Who Found
Happiness Among Her Pots and Pans, ''We're very grateful to have the support of Sinai Chapels, so that we may present these classic Yiddish films, produced in Warsaw before World War II, to our students and to the greater community, said Dr. Arthur Flug, the Holocaust Center's Executive Director.
The Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, founded in 1983, has been a bulwark in educating the community on the legacy of the Holocaust.