Community residents Rabbi Jacob Goldstein, Cantor Shlomie Rabin and Devorah Halberstam joined the local elected officials to urge the legislators to vote against the deal.
Rabbi Jacob Goldstein, Chaplain Colonel (Ret.) of the US Armed Forces, served 38 years in the military, including five deployed combat missions.
Devorah Halberstam is the mother of the late Ari Halberstam, who was killed in the terrorist shooting on the Brooklyn Bridge in 1994.
Ari Halberstam was 16 years old when a terrorist opened fire on the van he was traveling in with a dozen other Orthodox boys. The terrorist shouted “kill the Jews” in Arabic as he sprayed both sides of the van with machine gun fire.
The rally ended with the organizers joining in with Cantor Shlomie Rabin of Midtown Manhattan who sang Ani Ma’amin (“I believe,” a rendition of Rambam’s 13 principles of faith), as a prayer for peace and a prayer in memory of all those lost in terror attacks worldwide.