On October 15, HSPRD Shareholder Kalman Resnick joined faith and community leaders, including Aurora Mayor John Laesch, at a press conference hosted by CAIR-Chicago and SACRED Acts, speaking on behalf of the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (JCUA).
The leaders gathered to condemn the foiled attack targeting a Hindu temple in Aurora. As Kalman noted, the threat reached beyond Indian and Hindu communities to African Americans and Jews as well.
Sharing his own family’s history (three of his cousins, including a two-year-old, were arrested in Paris in 1942 and murdered at Auschwitz in 1943), Kalman pledged the Jewish community’s support for its neighbors:
“We know that the best way to protect ourselves against hatred is to unite with all who are vulnerable, and to fight hatred and those who support it or spread it.”
