Am Yisrael chai! Oct. 20, 2023 28 Cheshvan 5784 • Noach • Vol 22, No 32
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Thousands rally in 5 Towns to support the Jewish state
Thousands poured into Andrew J. Parise Park in Cedarhurst on Sunday to demonstrate support for Israel. Rabbi Ya’akov Trump of the
Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst (bottom photo) spoke of two posters displayed in his shul — one with 1,707 faces of people slain
over 23 years, and one with faces representing the 1,400 people murdered by Hamas in one day, on Oct. 7. Ed Weintrob, The Jewish Star
Rabbi Trump: Moral clarity
We weren’t struck by a bolt of moral clarity when Hamas terrorists murdered and pillaged in Israeli communities near the Gaza border on Oct. 7, “because for the last 23 years, we’ve suffered with terror, day in and day out,” Rabbi Ya’akov Trump of the Young Island of Lawrence-Cedarhurst told thousands gathered in Cedarhurst’s Andrew J. Parise Park on Sunday to demonstrate unity and support for Israel. For the rest of the world, however, the bloody terror appears to have been a revelation, he said. Here’s Rabbi Trump’s message, recorded by The Jewish Star: We understand the battle over there is not a battle between Israel and Hamas, between Jew and Arab; it is between good and evil. We’ve heard over the last 10 years stories — which everybody else ignores — stories of women killed in front of their children; 13-yearold girls murdered in their bed at night; young teenagers raped and decapitated as they go to the Jerusalem zoo; families decimated as they
sit down to their Friday night meals. And yet, the world ignores it. There are “two sides.” In our synagogue, we put up a sign just before Yom Kippur two weeks ago. This is a sign [pictured at right in accompanying photo] that was made by OneFamily, an organization dedicated to the families decimated by terror. There are 1,707 faces and names on this poster of people who have been murdered, civilians who have been killed, families who have been ripped apart in the last 23 years. And I would like to show you something else. This is a picture put together in the last week [at left of photo]. It is already outdated — with over 1,300 faces on it in one day, in one day! This is a moment of moral clarity. When we realize that maybe finally the world will wake up and understand that what we’ve been dealing with for the last 23 years, just happened in one day. And it is therefore incumbent upon us, it is incumbent upon anybody who calls themselves a human, incumbent on any free nation on earth, to eradicate the scourge of the soul of See Thousands on page 2