Kabbalat Shabbat In Memory of Rabbi Yosef Miller:

About 25 members of our community gathered together on Friday night April 5th.  We  enjoyed Kabbalat Shabbat services and a communal dinner together.  We Took time to remember Aida Miller’s Husband Yosef Miller’s Yahrzeit.  Rabbi Miller was a man worth remembering.  He contributed to our community,  to the welfare of Israel and to the safety and betterment of the world.  He served as a clergyman in The US army during WWII where he was able not only to help Jewish soldiers but also to help the Jews in Europe as they were first being released from the concentration camps. He was there to help them with both their spiritual and physical needs. 

He later made Aliya and when the first wave of Ethiopian Jews arrived in Israel He quickly realized that they were in danger of falling between the cracks.  The new Olim were mainly simple farmers before they arrived and did not have the skills to compete in a high tech market.  To future complicate the situation their immigration was followed by an influx of highly skilled Russian immigrants with abundant experience in high tech. Ever ready to fill a need Rabbi Miller founded the forgotten people fund which is dedicated to helping the Jewish Immigrants from Ethiopia integrate into modren Israeli society.  

Aida Yosef Miller's wife sponsored our evening and shared some insights into his life.  Adia was a perfect match for such a great man.  She does an unending number of good deeds.  She is a pillar of our community.  She was treasurer of Bet Israel for countless years. Her skill in this position was honed by the fact that she has been running The Forgotten People Fund for all these years since her husband passed away.  She regularly supplies food, diapers, and baby formula to numerous families in Netanya, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.   Under the surface she, and the forgotten people fund she continues to run, do untold good