Political, community leaders lead rally against anti-Semitism
Source: NJ Jewish News
‘Today we stand and we speak together,” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) told a crowd several hundred strong last Friday in Tenafly. “Today,” declared the Cuban-American Roman Catholic, “we say, ‘We are all Jews.’”
He was speaking at a March 3 rally organized to condemn the increasing number of anti-Semitism acts and expressions of bigotry that are occurring regularly in New Jersey and throughout the United States in recent weeks. (At press time, a new round of bomb threats had been called in to nine JCCs, as well as several Anti-Defamation League offices on Tuesday.)
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In a rousing address, the state’s junior senator, Cory Booker (D), told the audience how two white civil rights volunteers — one of them Jewish — were able to procure a house for his African-American family in an all-white neighborhood of Harrington Park in his youth. “I am the physical manifestation of the love and decency and goodness of my fellow Americans and of Jewish-Americans,” he said.
“Jews understood the truth that before you speak to me about your religion, show it to me in how you treat other people,” said Booker. “This is the truth of Judaism.”
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