“We will not only survive, we will thrive,” the congregation’s student rabbi and spiritual leader, Benjamin Russell, told his community, draped in the only surviving tallit that survived the fire. | Read More in JPost.com – The Jerusalem Post – All News from the Middle East, Israel, and the Jewish World. Read More in Israel NOWlej.
‘We are not made of wood and paper’: Jackson synagogue marks first Shabbat after arson