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Protesters blocked traffic to the Brooklyn Bridge, embodying the ancient Jewish tenets of justice, righteousness, and saving life.

Crossposted from https://kbin.earth/m/politics@lemmy.world/t/1979304/Dozens-Arrested-as-1-000-Jews-Demand-Gaza-Ceasefire-at-Rabbi-Led

Yom Kippur is the Jewish High Holy Day of atonement, you can learn more here: https://www.chabad.org/library/article/_cdo/aid/4687/jewish/Yom-Kippur-2025.htm

This felt especially powerful for me, with a fire and antisemitic graffiti at a synagogue in Florida and the Manchester car/knife attack, both during Rosh Hashanah, preceding Yom Kippur.

Further, following the attack on a Mormon Church, one of the congregants started a GiveSendGo for the wife and child of the attacker.

These are examples of living faith, from my perspective.

Brett Wilkins
Oct 03, 2025

Protesters then marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some sat down, locked their arms together, and sang while blocking traffic to the span. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers subsequently arrested at least 56 people, according to the New York Post.

Many of the arrested protesters chanted, “Let Gaza Live!” as their hands were zip-tied and they were hauled off to an awaiting NYPD bus.

Asked why she was arrested, one keffiyeh-clad woman said, “Because I’m using this sacred holiday of Yom Kippur, as a Jewish person whose ancestors perished during the Holocaust, to protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people in my name.”

“And I say, not in my name,” she added.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37043756

Brett Wilkins
Oct 03, 2025

Protesters then marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some sat down, locked their arms together, and sang while blocking traffic to the span. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers subsequently arrested at least 56 people, according to the New York Post.

Many of the arrested protesters chanted, “Let Gaza Live!” as their hands were zip-tied and they were hauled off to an awaiting NYPD bus.

Asked why she was arrested, one keffiyeh-clad woman said, “Because I’m using this sacred holiday of Yom Kippur, as a Jewish person whose ancestors perished during the Holocaust, to protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people in my name.”

“And I say, not in my name,” she added.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37043756

Brett Wilkins
Oct 03, 2025

Protesters then marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some sat down, locked their arms together, and sang while blocking traffic to the span. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers subsequently arrested at least 56 people, according to the New York Post.

Many of the arrested protesters chanted, “Let Gaza Live!” as their hands were zip-tied and they were hauled off to an awaiting NYPD bus.

Asked why she was arrested, one keffiyeh-clad woman said, “Because I’m using this sacred holiday of Yom Kippur, as a Jewish person whose ancestors perished during the Holocaust, to protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people in my name.”

“And I say, not in my name,” she added.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37043756

Brett Wilkins
Oct 03, 2025

Protesters then marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some sat down, locked their arms together, and sang while blocking traffic to the span. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers subsequently arrested at least 56 people, according to the New York Post.

Many of the arrested protesters chanted, “Let Gaza Live!” as their hands were zip-tied and they were hauled off to an awaiting NYPD bus.

Asked why she was arrested, one keffiyeh-clad woman said, “Because I’m using this sacred holiday of Yom Kippur, as a Jewish person whose ancestors perished during the Holocaust, to protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people in my name.”

“And I say, not in my name,” she added.

Brett Wilkins
Oct 03, 2025

Protesters then marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some sat down, locked their arms together, and sang while blocking traffic to the span. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers subsequently arrested at least 56 people, according to the New York Post.

Many of the arrested protesters chanted, “Let Gaza Live!” as their hands were zip-tied and they were hauled off to an awaiting NYPD bus.

Asked why she was arrested, one keffiyeh-clad woman said, “Because I’m using this sacred holiday of Yom Kippur, as a Jewish person whose ancestors perished during the Holocaust, to protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people in my name.”

“And I say, not in my name,” she added.