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| Rabbis From Across the Globe Flock to New York for Prayer — and Hope | Rabbis From Across the Globe Flock to New York for Prayer — and Hope |
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| The rabbis came from Israel and Ukraine, from Azerbaijan and France, from Thailand and farther still, as thousands of Jews filed into a graveyard in Queens under a sea of black hats. | The rabbis came from Israel and Ukraine, from Azerbaijan and France, from Thailand and farther still, as thousands of Jews filed into a graveyard in Queens under a sea of black hats. |
| The roughly 6,500 orthodox rabbis, in New York City for an annual conference, arrived in a city convulsed by protests over the war between Israel and Hamas. | The roughly 6,500 orthodox rabbis, in New York City for an annual conference, arrived in a city convulsed by protests over the war between Israel and Hamas. |
| In the graveyard, the burial place of the spiritual leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a nearly 250-year-old Hasidic group, the rabbis sought solace, the answer to prayers for peace — and a sense of hope to bring back to their congregations. | In the graveyard, the burial place of the spiritual leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, a nearly 250-year-old Hasidic group, the rabbis sought solace, the answer to prayers for peace — and a sense of hope to bring back to their congregations. |
| “We are losing everything we have,” Rabbi Avraham Wolff, the chief Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi of Odesa, Ukraine, said in Hebrew. He was born in Israel, which has been at war with Hamas since the group carried out a terrorist attack on the country on Oct. 7. And just before he left for New York, Russian rockets fell on Odesa. “I have 3,000 Jews who are looking to me and at everything their rabbi is doing,” he said. “For them I have to be strong.” | “We are losing everything we have,” Rabbi Avraham Wolff, the chief Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi of Odesa, Ukraine, said in Hebrew. He was born in Israel, which has been at war with Hamas since the group carried out a terrorist attack on the country on Oct. 7. And just before he left for New York, Russian rockets fell on Odesa. “I have 3,000 Jews who are looking to me and at everything their rabbi is doing,” he said. “For them I have to be strong.” |