On the recordApril 30, 2019
On Saturday, as members of our Jewish community in San Diego and all over the world observed the final day of Passover, a 19-year-old chose hate. He stormed into the Chabad of Poway synagogue, shooting at the congregation, leaving beloved community member Lori Gilbert Kaye dead and three more wounded. The congregation's brave rabbi, Yisroel Goldstein, reflected: ``I do not know why I had to witness scenes of a pogrom in San Diego County like the ones my grandparents experienced in Poland. . . . I don't know why I had to see my good friend . . . hunted in her house of worship.'' This Thursday, Madam Speaker, is Israel's Yom HaShoah, a day to commemorate the Holocaust and the 6 million Jews who were murdered for being Jewish. We are reminded of the hate, bigotry, and intolerance that we continue to face today, whether it be in San Diego, Sri Lanka, Christchurch, or Pittsburgh. Hate and violence had no place then and still do not today. We need to say ``never again'' and act. ____________________
