This High Holiday season, Reservoir Hill’s Beth Am Synagogue will mark the 40th consecutive year that Rheda Becker has presented the congregation’s Martyrology service on Yom Kippur. This year’s observance will focus on the story of Leo Frank, a young Jewish businessman who was wrongly accused of murder and lynched in 1913 in Atlanta. His trial, heavily influenced by an antisemitic press, remains one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in American history.

Immediately following the Martyrology service, Tom Hall, host of WYPR’s “Midday,” will conduct a live interview with Becker and engage the congregation in a reflective discussion.

Becker is a former faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory (now the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University) and a veteran musical narrator. She served as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s narrator for more than four decades. Becker has conducted the Martyrology service every Yom Kippur afternoon at the synagogue, at 2501 Eutaw Place, for the past four decades.

For information, contact Courtney Luby at 410-523-2446, ext. 1111 or Courtney@bethambaltimore.org.