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Heartbreak: Reut Salomon, the daughter of Elad Salomon who was murdered in a horrific terror attack last year by a Palestinian terrorist who broke into their home during Shabbat dinner, speaks at the Yom HaZikaron ceremony in Jerusalem:
"I dream that you are standing there and I run to you and you hug me so so tight."
On this day, we mourn.
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HIKIND CALLS ON MAYOR TO REMOVE ANTI-SEMITE FROM FDNY BORO PARK ASSIGNMENT
PLANS PROTEST WITH HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AT FIREHOUSE
NYS Assemblyman Dov Hikind is shocked at the insensitivity of the FDNY in assigning a firefighter who once Tweeted “I like Jews as much as Hitler” to a firehouse in the middle of the most Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Hikind is calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to intervene and promises that if nothing is done, Holocaust survivors and others will protest the assignment outside of the Boro Park Firehouse.
Joseph M. Cassano, 28, the son of former FDNY Commissioner Salvatore Cassano, graduated from the Fire Academy last week and was sent to Engine 247 on 60th Street. The younger Cassano had resigned his job as an FDNY emergency medical technician in 2013 after Tweeting racist and hateful comments about Blacks and Jews.
“Assigning this man to Borough Park, where you have an incredible number of Holocaust survivors, is an insult to our community,” said Hikind. “I’m not sure he should be anywhere, but certainly not here with the people he said he hates.”
Hikind said if the issue is not addressed by the Mayor’s office, Holocaust survivors and others will join him in protest at the firehouse in Boro Park. ... See MoreSee Less
