In Brighton, Jewish community sets an empty Shabbat table for Israeli hostages terrorist attacks
by Talia Lissauer
Boston Globe | November 3, 2023
More than 200 empty chairs lined a Shabbat table on the Brighton Common on Friday to honor the hostages being held in Gaza by Hamas terrorists since the surprise attack on Israel Oct. 7.
Each empty chair represented one individual missing from their Shabbat table this Friday, said Jeremy Burton, the CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council, in an interview Friday.
“It’s one way not to lose sight of the individual people who we’re talking about here,” Burton said. “Too often, the conversation becomes a matter of numbers.”
