In a San Diego enclave last week on the Jewish Sabbath, a devout friend put herself in front of her rabbi in order to shield him from an active shooter. She literally gave her life for his.
The rabbi was leading congregants in a celebration of the last day of Passover at Chabad of Poway, a branch within Orthodox Judaism’s Hasidic movement, when gunman charged in and began shooting. Lori Kaye noticed that the rabbi’s hands had been shot, and she threw herself in front of him. When her husband, a physician who came to the scene quickly after to help triage victims, realized he was performing CPR on his wife, he fainted.