At the time of the attack, other synagogues around the country, including mine, were in the middle of reading one of the most challenging passages in the Torah, the binding of Isaac. Three years have passed since my co-worker Rich Gottfried, my mentor Jerry Rabinowitz, my bus stop buddy Cecil Rosenthal and eight other neighbors and friends were killed in the terrorist attack on our community at the Tree of Life building. Get The Jewish Chronicle Weekly Edition by email and never miss our top stories These were all things I knew, but connecting it this way for the person I was speaking to the other day made it more real, more sensible, than it had ever been before.
