To correct an error by Susan Katz. The term used for the Synagogue service when the names of the dead are mentioned and commemorated is YIZKOR not yahrzeit. This is recited 4 times a year on these specific holidays. 1. Yom Kippur (Day Of Atonement) 2. Shemini Atzeres (Eighth Day of Solemn Assembly after Succos). 3. Passover (on the 8th day thereof). 4. Shavuos (Pentecost) on the second day. During that portion of the service when YIZKOR is recited, all people with living parents must exit the Synagogue, and only those who have a need to recite the service remain during its recitation. I will be willing to answer any specific questions about Jewish ritual and custom concerning death and mourning. Unfortunately I have had more than my share of experience in such matters. SOL ZELLER