Pittsburgh rabbis share their anguish at annual Brooklyn gathering
The annual gathering on Sunday morning of more than 5,000 Chabad-Lubavitch Hassidic rabbis from more than 100 countries was more somber than usual this year, as participants memorialized the 11 Jewish people shot to death in a Pittsburgh synagogue last week.
The gathering for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries at Lubavitch headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights was highlighted by a special prayer by the rabbis of Pittsburgh to remember the people slaughtered in the anti-Semitic attack. But even more sobering for many rabbis was the idea of bringing guns into their synagogues to thwart future attacks.