The annual Holocaust memorial ceremony on Sunday in Philadelphia was especially poignant, coming a day after the deadly shooting at a California synagogue by a gunman using an assault rifle and screaming anti-Semitic slurs.
“We mourn the recent tragic losses yesterday at Congregation Chabad,” Susanna Lachs Adler, board chair of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, said as she stepped to the microphone at Congregation Rodeph Shalom on North Broad Street, addressing the fresh heartache of the nearly 400 in attendance.