In the Face of Hatred and Division, We Must Choose Unity and Hope, by Yael Eckstein

By Yael Eckstein, The Stream, July 20, 2024

Yael Eckstein is president and CEO of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship), one of the world’s largest religious charitable organizations. The Jerusalem Post’s 2023 Humanitarian Award recipient and three-time honoree on its list of 50 Most Influential Jews, Yael is a Chicago-area native based in Israel with her husband and their four children.

It was a scene so disturbing, so unreal, that I still am in shock, as I’m sure many in America and around the world are. There in the fields of Pennsylvania, speaking to a crowd assembled for a campaign rally, former President Donald Trump was the target of an assassin’s gun.

I can only thank God that the attack on the former president was not more serious. But in its aftermath, we now know that this assassination attempt took a deadly toll. One man – Corey Comperatore, a firefighter, husband, and father of two – was killed, and two others were critically injured in the gunfire that peppered the crowd. They were there as supporters of the former president, exercising their right as Americans to choose the political candidate of their choice. …

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