Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) As the conflict in Israel rages on, many in the Jewish and Israeli communities in Rochester have family and friends in the country. Mer
13WHAM's Andrew MacBeath speaks to Meredith Dragon, the CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, who has family in Israel as attacks from the Hamas military group ramp up. , many in the local Jewish and Israeli communities in Rochester have family and friends in the country.Meredith Dragon, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Rochester, has family in Israel.
Dragon said this attack not only affects those living in Israel at the time, but many more across the globe."An attack on Israel in this way, this terrorist attack is an attack on all Jews around the world, and that’s how we feel it," she said. "We feel it like a gut punch." "I myself grew up in Israel since age 5," Spivak said. "I've been in Rochester for quite a few years. I moved here at the age of 22, but my sister and her family live there in Ra'anana, just north of Tel Aviv."She oversees an emissary program for the Jewish Federation, where young adults from Israel defer their required military service for the IDF to study to become an emissary.
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