As a Muslim youth choir sang and leaders from more than a dozen faith organizations lit candles, members of the Jewish community in Salt Lake City called for love and kindness Tuesday in the face of anti-Semitic violence.
“We will not stop fighting for others,” Rabbi Samuel L. Spector told hundreds of mourners gathered at Congregation Kol Ami for a vigil in remembrance of 11 people killed in a shooting Saturday at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. “Those that have tried to eliminate us are no longer here, but we still are.”
Refugee advocate Eric Goldman noted that the shooter, Robert Gregory Bowers, had focused his anti-Semitism on Jewish refugee aid, posting conspiracy theories that Jews were supporting caravans of Central American immigrants whom President Donald Trump has attacked on social media as they move toward the U.