'What did we do at every challenge that came our way? We came together like we're doing here, now, tonight,' Rabbi Mendel Weinfeld said.
Through song and prayer, San Jose community members and city leaders gathered for an evening of unity and solidarity amid the war in Israel and Gaza.Through songs and prayers, San Jose community members and city leaders gathered for an evening of unity and solidarity amid the war in Israel and Gaza.
On Tuesday evening members of the synagogue Chabad of Almaden hosted an event called San Jose Stands with Israel."What did we do at every challenge that came our way? We came together like we're doing here, now, tonight," Weinfeld said.Elected officials joined in to show their support."Our city will continue to stand for diversity, for inclusion, for self-expression, for religious freedom, and against hate and discrimination and violence," Mahan said.
"My dad was in three different concentration camps in Poland and was liberated from Bergen-Belsen in April of 1945," Rosen said. "And then spent another five years in displaced persons camps in Germany before coming to this country in 1950. And there was no justice for my dad and my family - there was no justice for the Jewish people and there was no justice in the world then."
Rosen went on to say reading and seeing the images of people ripped from their homes and murdered or kidnapped is a very difficult thing."They live in the first big city, so they're affected every day," Weiner said."Worried, concerned, a little helpless being so far away knowing that the only way we have to communicate with anyone back there is through our phones, through social media, through WhatsApp," Gallo said.
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