Jewish Agency Memorial Day service pays tribute to Jews killed in US shootings

The Jewish Agency pays special tributes to the 12 Jews killed in two shooting attacks in the US — the October 2018 shooting in Pittsburgh and the April 2019 shooting in the San Diego-area city of Poway — in a ceremony marking Israel’s annual Memorial Day.

Marnie Fienberg, the daughter-in-law of Joyce Fienberg who was killed in Pittsburgh, was invited by the Jewish Agency to participate in the Agency ceremony, as was Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh president and CEO Jeff Finkelstein.

Marnie Fienberg, the daughter-in-law of Joyce Fienberg, who was murdered in the Pittsburgh synagogue attack, lights a memorial torch together with Chairman of The Jewish Agency for Israel Isaac Herzog (Credit: Noam Sharon)

“On this day, the Jews of the Diaspora unite in grief with all the residents of the State of Israel,” Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog says after lighting a memorial torch together with Fienberg. “And here, too, in Israel, we are united in grief with the Jewish families in the Diaspora, those who lost loved ones in terrorist acts and those whose children chose to wear their olive uniforms and gave their lives protecting Israel.”