“We are gathered here today for this awesome and awful commemoration,” Rabbi Dovid Asher said to a crowd of about 200 bowed heads at the Virginia Holocaust Museum’s Yom HaShoah
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The Jewish community faces a greater rise in hate than any other religious group in the U.S. With that in mind, Virginia officials are taking the lead in growing efforts to fight antisemitism.
“I believe there is always more we can do. We just need the time and resources to do it,” Lori Shepherd, executive director of Tucson’s Holocaust center, told JNS.