{"id":31176,"date":"2016-07-15T17:24:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T23:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=31176"},"modified":"2016-07-15T17:24:28","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T23:24:28","slug":"nices-defiant-jews-to-gather-on-shabbat-despite-terrorist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/nices-defiant-jews-to-gather-on-shabbat-despite-terrorist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice\u2019s defiant Jews to gather on Shabbat despite terrorist attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Nice\u2019s Jewish community will hold Shabbat activities in a spirit\u00a0of solidarity and defiance after a terrorist killed scores of people\u00a0in the city in southern France.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31177\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nice-memorial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31177\" class=\"wp-image-31177 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nice-memorial-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"NICE, FRANCE - JULY 15: People visit the scene and lay tributes to the victims of a terror attack on the Promenade des Anglais on July 15, 2016 in Nice, France. A French-Tunisian attacker killed 84 people as he drove a lorry through crowds, gathered to watch a firework display during Bastille Day celebrations. The attacker then opened fire on people in the crowd before being shot dead by police.(Photo by Patrick Aventurier\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nice-memorial-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nice-memorial.jpg 880w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31177\" class=\"wp-image-31177 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nice-memorial-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"NICE, FRANCE - JULY 15: People visit the scene and lay tributes to the victims of a terror attack on the Promenade des Anglais on July 15, 2016 in Nice, France. A French-Tunisian attacker killed 84 people as he drove a lorry through crowds, gathered to watch a firework display during Bastille Day celebrations. The attacker then opened fire on people in the crowd before being shot dead by police.(Photo by Patrick Aventurier\/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nice-memorial-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/nice-memorial.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-31177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People visiting the scene and laying tributes to the victims of a terror attack on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice France, July 15, 2016. (Patrick Aventurier\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A 30-year-old man drove a rented white truck through a crowded promenade in the coastal resort city on Thursday night shortly after the annual firework show on Bastille Day, BFMTV reported. He may have had accomplices who participated\u00a0in the attack itself, the channel reported. Over\u00a080 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not let this affect us, we will not let fear affect or damage the life of our community, just as France will not let fear of terrorism change it,\u201d Yossef Yitschok Pinson, the rabbi of Nice\u2019s Chabad House, told JTA Friday. Synagogue services and community events will go on as planned, he said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the fatalities, the attack resulted in severe injuries to at least 18 people and a few other people were lightly wounded. The identities of the victims have\u00a0not yet been made known. At least five of the wounded are Jews, according to Pinson. French government officials\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/16\/world\/europe\/nice-france-truck-attack-what-we-know.html\">reported<\/a> that the\u00a0death toll was at least 84 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe truck left a trail of blood as it tore through the crowd,\u201d said Pinson, citing eye-witness testimonies. One witness to\u00a0the attack was \u201cdeeply traumatized by what she saw,\u201d he said. \u201cBody parts, people screaming, blood everywhere and very, very difficult sights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Paris, Nice had never\u00a0seen a terrorist attack of the scale witnessed Thursday. \u201cAlthough it\u00a0is part of the reality of life in France that something like this can happen, it is shocking to see it in Nice,\u201d Pinson added.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who has a criminal record involving violence but not terrorism, barrelled through the crowd that had gathered on the Promenade des Anglais to watch fireworks on France\u2019s national day, according to the BFMTV television channel.<\/p>\n<p>President Francoise Hollande said that an \u201cattack with terrorist characteristics cannot be denied.\u201d He added that France\u2019s state of emergency, declared in November following a lethal series of terrorist attacks in Paris, may be extended and that some army reservists may be drafted.\u00a0The driver, who fired a gun into the crowd, was killed by return fire. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>Nice, which is located on the coast\u00a0of the Mediterranean Sea, is an international tourist destination that also draws hundreds of thousands of local French tourists in summer, as well as many European Jews who come to Nice because it has a permanent Jewish population of 25,000 with kosher shops and synagogues, in addition to the Chabad House.<\/p>\n<p>But the summer crowd has not yet arrived, Pinson, the rabbi, told JTA. \u201cThey usually come in August, then there are far more Jews in town,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Following the attack, Jewish groups joined other faith groups, heads of state and international organizations in condemning the attack.<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama said in a statement: \u00a0\u201cWe stand in solidarity and partnership with France, our oldest ally, as they respond to and recover from this attack. We know that the character of the French Republic will endure long after this devastating and tragic loss of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu siad in a statement Friday that his country \u201ccondemns in the strongest terms last night\u2019s horrific attack in Nice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israelis, he added, \u201cstand united with the people of France today\u201d and \u201cIsrael is ready to help the French government fight this evil until it is defeated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor spoke of his outrage, as well as \u201cpain and sadness,\u201d following the attack.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Nice%E2%80%99s%20defiant%20Jews%20to%20gather%20on%20Shabbat%20despite%20terrorist%20attack\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":31177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2112,689,8790,8795,8788,6760,140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31178,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176\/revisions\/31178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}