Chabad in Nice Won’t Cancel Shabbos Services
“We will not let this affect us, we will not let fear affect or damage the life of our community, just as France will not let fear of terrorism change it,” Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Pinson, Chabad Emissary to Nice, told the JTA on Friday. He reiterated that Shabbos services will proceed as planned.
From The Times of Israel:
Nice’s Jewish community has decided to hold Shabbat services as planned after a vehicular terror attack killed 84 people in the city in southern France on Thursday night.
The attack was carried out by a 31-year-old Tunisian-born man who drove a rented white truck through a crowded promenade in the coastal resort city of Nice on Thursday night, shortly after the annual firework show on Bastille Day.
“We will not let this affect us, we will not let fear affect or damage the life of our community, just as France will not let fear of terrorism change it,” Yossef Yitschok Pinson, the rabbi of Nice’s Chabad House, told JTA Friday.
Synagogue services and community events will proceed as planned, he said.
In addition to the 84 fatalities, the attack resulted in severe injuries to at least 18 people. The identities of the victims have not yet been made public. At least five of the wounded are Jews, according to Pinson.
So what?
What about Turkey,