The rabbi of a Pittsburgh synagogue attacked last year by a white supremacist said Tuesday that the wave of hate will only end when racists feel ostracized, as he opened a major US meeting on religious freedom. More than 100 foreign delegations were invited to take part in the gathering in Washington
1 / 3Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, a survivor of the mass shooting at his Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, speaks during a religious freedom meeting at the US Department of StateRabbi Jeffrey Myers, a survivor of the mass shooting at his Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, speaks during a religious freedom meeting at the US Department of State Washington - The rabbi of a Pittsburgh synagogue attacked last year by a white supremacist said Tuesday that the wave of hate will only end when racists...
While speakers did not directly refer to Trump's remarks, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life synagogue, where 11 people were killed in October's shooting, drew applause as he noted that all in the United States other than Native Americans are immigrants or their descendants. He was referring to Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel"The Scarlet Letter" in which Prynne is forced to wear an"A" for committing adultery.
Calling religious freedom a"global crisis" that has drawn too little attention, Brownback said that 80 percent of the world's population lived in countries where there were some impediments on religious practice.
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