JUF Chicago President: Terrorist outrages should have been no surprise

JEWISH UNITED FUND METRO CHICAGO
by Steven B. Nasatir
January 14, 2015

Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago President Dr. Steven B. Nasatir delivered the following remarks at the Chicago community memorial service for the French victims of terror on January 14, 2015.

….Yesterday, thousands of Israelis came together at noon at the Givat Shaul cemetery in Yerushalayim to pay their last respects to Yoav Hattab (22), Yohan Cohen (22), Philipe Braham (45), and Francois Michel Saada (55).  My colleague, Ofer Bavly, Director of our Federation office in Israel, paid his respects on all of our behalves. As I stand here today, I think of yesterday’s burials and of the deaths of the other thirteen citizens of France who were murdered last week and the grieving of their families, and I am taken back to thoughts of a visit of mine to Paris last summer. Shortly after arriving, I went to the Don Isaac Abravanel synagogue, which two days before had been attacked by a vicious mob armed with steel rods and knives, chanting “Death to the Jews.”  What I heard from the leaders of the synagogue to whom I had conveyed my support was chilling. READ MORE

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