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Cohen, Louis Finkelman, Samantha Foon, Yevgeniya Gazman, Stacy Gittleman, Gary Graff, Esther Allweiss Ingber, Barbara Lewis, Jennifer Lovy, Rabbi Jason Miller, Alan Muskovitz, Karen Schwartz, Robin Schwartz, Steve Stein, Nathaniel Warshay, Julie Smith Yolles, Ashley Zlatopolsky Advertising Sales Director of Advertising: Keith Farber kfarber@thejewishnews.com Senior Account Executive: Kathy Harvey-Mitton kmitton@thejewishnews.com | Business Office Director of Operations: Amy Gill agill@thejewishnews.com Operations Manager: Ashlee Watkins Circulation: Danielle Smith Billing Coordinator: Pamela Turner | Production By Farago & Associates Manager: Scott Drzewiecki Designers: Kaitlyn Iezzi, Kelly Kosek, Michelle Sheridan ‘We Are Linked Arm-in-Arm’ On Oct. 7, Congregation Shaarey Zedek Rabbi Aaron Starr welcomed more than 4,000 people at a memorial event on the anniversary of the Hamas pogrom the year before. What follows are his remarks in full. For the story about the event, please see page 8. O n behalf of the Congregation Shaarey Zedek family, welcome to our sacred home and thank you for being here. I would like to extend our gratitude to the Jewish Federation of Detroit, to the Michigan Board of Rabbis and to the Michigan Board of Cantors for organizing tonight’s event. We welcome and thank the elected officials joining us this evening, and I would like to acknowledge as well as my rabbinic and cantorial colleagues whose leadership over the last year and every year strengthens the Jewish People and brings healing to our community. One year ago, we gathered in this sacred space to try to make sense of Shabbat HaShachor, Oct. 7: the terrible pogrom perpetrated against our brothers and sisters in Israel. We continue to try to process the loss of life and the suffering inflicted against us. We continue to worry desperately about the remaining hostages, and we worry about our family who con- tinues to be under attack. We worry for Israel’s soldiers who, despite their yearning for peace, must defend our people, our state, and our land. May God be with them, with their families and with all the citizens of the Jewish state. May God comfort the citizens of Israel, and may God spread over them a Sukkat Shalom — a canopy of peace and of healing. Here we are now, one year later, still sad and angry, but also incredibly emboldened. In addition to Israel’s war of self-defense, we’ve responded to our enemies’ senseless hatred by performing countless acts of unyielding love. And, as we read in Exodus, “But the more [the Israelites] were oppressed, the more they grew …” We are now an even stronger Jewish Detroit family that has entered these Shaarey Zedek, these Gates of Righteousness, to become all of us a Beth El and Beth Ahm; we are an Adat Shalom in a Beth Shalom. In that we are B’nai Moshe, Shomrei Emunah, and Partners in Torah, we summon the Aish of our Etz Chayim and Keter Torah, so that, with the sacred spirit of Chabad and with a Kol Ami, we can together sing a Shir Shalom and a Shir Tikvah. Knowing that Emanu-El, God is with us, and that we are linked arm- in-arm with Jews all over the world, we are today — all of us — B’nai Israel and Young Israel and Temple Israel. On this day of mourning, of resilience, and of unity, we are Am Echad im Lev Echad: one people with one heart. Jewish Detroit stands with Israel. Am Yisrael Chai! Our task this evening is to remember those murdered, to lift up those taken hostage, and to stand proud at the remarkable resilience of Israel, Israelis and Jews around the world. Our task is to plead with God to bring healing and our task this evening is to care for each other, to care for our Israeli brothers and sisters, to care what happened one year ago and in this last year, and to care what will happen tomorrow. Our task is to love. On this Oct. 7, one year later, we stand together, Am Echad im Lev Echad: one people with one heart. We stand together to proclaim Am Yisrael Chai. In this week between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, allow me also to quote from Psalm 27, “Kavei el-Hashem, chazak v’ya-amatz libecha. V’kavei el Hashem: Have hope in the Eternal; be strong and of good courage! Hope in the Eternal!” Our task tonight is also to remain hopeful that our children will inherit a world of peace, of love, and of justice, and that Israel will be a secure, Jewish and democratic state, a beacon of light to the world. 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