Congregation Am Echod News Today

From thousands of miles away, Chicago-area Jewish leaders and Palestinian activists expressed a mix of anger, grief and defiance after Hamas fighters launched a multipronged attack on Israel, and Israeli forces retaliated with airstrikes in Gaza Saturday.

After checking his parents’ graves at the Waukegan cemetery, Alan Friedlander said: “There’s a lot of anger, a little bit of worry but mostly feeling sorry for how dark that person’s heart has to be to do that.”

Police were searching Monday for the person or people responsible for defacing headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Waukegan.