VIDEO of funeral service will be posted in the near future.
Location: Online Zoom Meeting(Dial in phone number will be provided for those who do not have a computer or smartphone.)
Date: Sunday January 17th, 2021
Schedule (Times are EST)1:45pm Zoom call starts, Free conversation is allowed.2:00pm Elliott: Welcoming remarks and Zoom controls orientation2:03pm Service Begins
Rabbi: Welcoming remarks
Rabbi: Opening Prayer
Keriah, the ritual tearing of clothes
Elliott and Phyllis: Blessing 1 and 2
Other Family and loved ones: first verse of the Shema (repeat after Rabbi)
Rabbi: Psalm reading
Hesped: Sharing & Eulogy
Elliott Davis
Phyllis Barsky
Elaine Fox
Bill Gorman
Rabbi: Eyl Maley Rachamim, a prayer for the deceased
Mourners Kaddish in Hebrew (text will be displayed on screen)
Elliott: Mourners Kaddish in English - adapted from Marge Piercy's version.
Rabbi: A short poem or other reading
Rabbi: Hamakom Yenachem, a prayer for comfort
3:00pm (or immediately following service) Elliott welcomes others to share remembrances about Arthur Davis.#:##pm No official end time.Rabbi: Brian Walt (same person who presided over Elliott's bar-mitzvah)
Flowers, Donations, etcIn lieu of flowers, planted trees, etc please send donations to Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia or Fairvote.org