Bishop Jaech’s Response to Hanukkah Stabbing
30 December 2019
Dear Friends,
“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” Matthew 2:18
This past Saturday, which in the Christian calendar was the Day of the Slaughter of the HolyInnocents, a man forced his way into a Jewish rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, as he was celebrating Hanukah with his community, and the intruder began stabbing people. The next day, a man entered a Christian church in Texas with a shot gun and opened fire on the worshippers, killing one and critically wounding another, before he himself was killed by the church’s security team…