VINELAND — Clergy from the Vineland Ministerim will come together with the area faith community in the spirit of unity as Beth Israel Congregation will host the 43rd Annual Brotherhood & Sisterhood Service, on Friday, Feb. 5, at 7 p. m., at the synagogue, 1015 E. Park Ave., Vineland.

The service, one of the oldest continuously held ecumenical services of its kind in New Jersey, will feature guest speaker Ralph Vallone, Jr., Esq., an attorney who has practiced as a member of the Puerto Rico and federal bars since 1972. The topic of Vallone’s address will be “Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother.”

This service started when, during the escalating conflict in Vietnam, Rabbi Dr. Murray Kohn, now Rabbi Emeritus of Beth Israel Congregation, began a prayerful striving for unity with the inception of the Brotherhood Shabbat Service. This service of prayer and local unity has become a spiritual fixture within Vineland and the surrounding area.

An offering of canned or dry goods is requested which will help stock the local food pantry and will be distributed to the less fortunate members of the Vineland community. Monetary donations may be made directly to the Cumberland County Hunger Appeal.

Vallone is, or has been, a member of the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, American Society of Law and Medicine, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and the Institute for Notary Law. The author of a book on medical malpractice and the novel Second Vision (Penguin, 1995), he has biographical entries in the Martindale- Hubbell law directory and Who’s Who in Legal America.

The service is open to the community and refreshments will be served.

For more information, please call the Beth Israel Congregation office at 856-691-0852.