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Meron: Local responses

By Andrea Jacobs & Chris Leppek RABBI SARA GILBERT, Beth Israel, Greeley cruelty” is how Rabbi Sara Gilbert describes the April 29-30 stampede at Mt. Meron. She prayed with her congregation for the dead and injured at last Friday’s Shabbat service. She also shared the agony of her in-laws, who were at Meron. “I spoke of my muchutanim” at the service, Gilbert tells the IJN. “Two teenage sons got separated from their parents, who waited for them outside the arena. I can only imagine their terror as they looked for their children. “Thankfully everyone in the family was fine and only needed to spend the night in the car because all the roads were blocked by emergency vehicles.” Gilbert was horrified when the developing news […]
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