News briefs and calendar items from around coastal Orange County, this week from the cities of Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach and Costa Mesa.
"I have to speak for them," Joseph Alexander said while showing the crowd photos of parents and siblings who died in the Holocaust. "Not just for them, I need to speak for 6 million Jews because they can't talk."
"It's more important than ever to hear their testimony as we're seeing an increase in hate in our communities," Rabbi Reuven Mintz from Chabad of Newport Beach said.