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Published: Oct. 10, 2023, 9:03 p.m.As Steven Brickman addressed a gathering of Birmingham’s Jewish community on Tuesday night, he did not know the fate of two family members in Israel near the border with Gaza.
“We as Jews and Christians who love Israel understand this weekend was the worst day in the history of the Jewish people since the Holocaust,” he said. “We’re in pain, we’re angry and feeling a sense of incomprehension at the magnitude of these barbaric acts.” “Today’s sentiments reverberate through the streets of Birmingham and indeed the world,” Cohn siad. “We are here for Israel .. for our brothers and sisters that face terrorism and fear, reminding them that they are not alone. Terror seeks to divide, to create chasms and to sow the seeds of discord. Yet in its wake we witness the very opposite.”, where donations are being collected to help Israeli victims rebuild.
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