Jewish community reacts to synagogue attack

The members of the Jewish community said that after a synagogue attack in Manchester, they were “shock but not surprised.”

On Thursday morning, before stabbing people outside the Hebrew Community Synagogue in Crumpsall, two people died and three people were in the hospital.

Police victims 53 and 66 -year -old Melvin Cravitz Adrian Daulby. Later, the officers announced the attacker that one of the men was shot by police gunshots.

Nathan Kedem, who lives in the region, said that he was not fully surprised by the attack and added: “It was a hard night last night, I barely managed to sleep. He brought them all to the door.”

He and his family moved from Israel to England 20 years ago. “Now I’m really confused – where is safe?” he said.

Mr Kedem, the community securities volunteered to Trust and helped the safety of his children when he was younger.

“When you stand in the corner of the street, you can think of it, it is a matter of someone who decides to take action in some of the one second, and nothing you can do.”

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Mr. Kedem said: “Even 20 years ago, there has been anti -Semitism, and especially in the last few years.

He continued: “Only two months ago by taking a taxi to the airport, the driver, without realizing that we are Jewish, a few anti -Jewish comments that shocked us.”

Anna, who was a community rabbi at her husband St Anne’s and joined Vigil in Crumpsall with her children in the afternoon, repeated Mr. Kadem’s feelings “shock but not surprised”.

“You’ve been able to feel the tension in the air building since October 2023, it’s almost something waiting to be realized,” he said.

“Because the Jewish population is small, we feel like a family, and someone hurt us.

“We need to increase our positive actions, and I hope the government will do something about rising anti -Semitism.

“I know that people felt like Nazi Germany before the 1930s, and I’m starting to feel this way.”

A man in Vigil said: “This was committed to being, he was waiting to be – I didn’t think it would be in front of my door, but he was waiting to be.”

Others in participation talked about the power of the community where people from all different races and religions live with each other.

A man said: “There are people of every nationality, every race in my way, and we all continue. We are not stupid. If the community is bad, it is a great community here.”

A woman added: “It doesn’t matter which religion you are, the wrong thing is wrong. It shouldn’t be, the loss of life is really unfair. We are here to show our support and our love for everyone who is here today.”

Sam, an Orthodox Jewish man living behind the synagogue, said “shock and fear, but not a surprise.”

“Recently, things have been aimed at looking Jewish,” he said.

“They’re shouting to us from their cars, ‘Jewish’ or ‘Free Palestine’, or we just shouted to jump us. We’re afraid right now.”

When he saw the news, Melvin said he knew Cravitz.

“We saw him in the neighborhood and stopped and chatted, he was a very kind, good man.”

“I feel safe to you to be honest with you, but this is because we only get a lot of support from our neighbors,” David Eklouby, a Orthodox Jewish man, who is a part of a Broughton -based security group in Broughton, said.

A Jewish woman and a Catholic woman had previously held hands when she visited the Catholic Church of St Anne in Crumpsall.

Esther Seymour, a Jewish woman who went to the church with his friend Celeste Cavanagh, a Catholic, said he saw that many people with different beliefs “warmed their hearts.” Esther’s son comes with the daughter of Celeste, a member of the church community.

Esther told BBC Radio Manchester: “Many people seem to be against the Jewish people, and come here and seeing people rather than other beliefs made it feel really good.

“I have seen very beautiful Muslim people here, I feel very bad for how they feel, I really do it, because we all want peace, according to religion.

“The majority of people want to be together, we want to be in peace, we want to live side by side.”

Celeste said: “When such things happen, we return to his faith, and I wanted to openly burn Esther and show that we were standing side by side.

“I have lived in Crumpsall for 54 years, this is my church, 54 years, and we have lived side by side with other cultures for all years, and we cannot allow it to be destroyed.

Esther said he cried after seeing people coming to the church from all beliefs.

“Most people care, we don’t always hear, some people are afraid to say that we sometimes care, because no one knows the right thing to say, but coming here shows people.”

Zippi, who lives near the synagogue on the Middleton Road, walked on the road to visit the family on Friday nights that BBC Radio 5 Live was regularly on the nearby road to him and his children.

He said in the region that they do not have “welcome” and now “rethinking whether there is a future for us as a family”.

“The five -year -old asked me yesterday, when we had four helicopters on our heads all day, ‘Is this Yom Kippur this?’ I said no, “he said.

He continued: “It is not the norm and not as we need to live.”

“Our hearts are shredded at the moment,” he said to the BBC, the Chief Lord Sir Ephraim Mirvis.

This is not only for the Jews of England, but for the whole society, because it was not just an attack against the Jews, but an attack on the values ​​of our society. ”