One year after a shooter attacked the Poway of Chabad during services, killing a beloved member, the synagogue’s rabbi stands alone in the sanctuary of the empty building to lead a memorial.
Rabbi Mendel Goldstein remembers Lori Gilbert-Kaye as kind and “beautiful” inside and out in the one-hour taped memorial released Sunday on the San Diego-area Chabad’s website.
Goldstein is the son of Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was shot and lost a finger in the April 27, 2019, attack. Gilbert-Kaye, 60, died while shielding the rabbi with her body.
The senior Goldstein stepped down as head of the Poway Chabad in November and did not appear in the memorial.
Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was killed in a shooting at a San Diego County synagogue on April 27, 2019 (Facebook)
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the former British chief rabbi, and Rabbi Yosef Jacobson, a Chabad rabbi and speaker from Teaneck, New Jersey, also pay tribute to Gilbert-Kaye.
“The pain is real. The loss of Lori is ever-present,” Goldstein says. “But we know our focus must be on the future, on becoming better people and better Jews.”
— JTA
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