March 27, 2013 THE VILLADOM TIMES II • Page 5 Ridgewood The 27th annual Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Service, organized by the Ridgewood Interfaith Clergy Council, will take place at West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 South Monroe Street in Ridgewood on Sunday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. Holocaust Ethnomusicologist Dr. Tamara R. Freeman will deliver the keynote speech, “Hirsh Glik: Holocaust Teenage Resistance Fighter and Poet.” Glik, an admired young leader of the Vilna World War II Jewish partisan freedom fighters, Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Service set wrote poetry and music as a form of spiritual resistance. He was a member of the Fareynigte Partizaner Organizatsye, a creative writers’ organization whose prolific output described the events and convictions of the partisans. As part of Dr. Freeman’s speech, she will teach the audience how to sing the rousing FPO anthem in Yiddish. Glik is especially remembered and loved for having composed the world-renowned “Zog Nit Keynmol,” a song of spiritual resistance that has been the Holocaust “national anthem” world-wide for over 70 years. Dr. Freeman taught instrumental music and conducted bands and orchestras in the Ridgewood Public Schools from 1982 to 2012. She is a concert violinist and violist, and her 1935 Joseph Bausch viola was rescued from the Holocaust. Dr. Freeman will play this historic viola during her keynote speech. The service will feature a candle-lighting ceremony by Holocaust survivors and members of their families, and musical selections performed by Cantor Caitlin Bromberg and the Interfaith Choir, conducted by Dr. Freeman of Temple Israel and accompanied by Choirmaster Garah Landes of Saint Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church. In addition, there will be musical selections performed on the harp by Irene Bressler, a member of Temple Israel. This observance is free and open to the community. Ridgewood therapist Jack Kakolewski will present “Living Authentically in all our Relationships: Learning from our Vulnerabilities to Bring Us New Growth and Healing” to the OLMC MOMs group on Therapist to address MOMs group April 3. The program will be held at 9:15 a.m. in the Parish Center at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, 1 Passaic Street in Ridgewood. All are welcome. For more information, visit www.olmcmoms.org. Tamara Freeman