The Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago has issued the following statement in response to the terrorist attack at a Kenyan university Thursday that claimed 147 lives:
The news from Kenya that an Islamic terrorist organization, al-Shabab, separated Christians from Muslims and then murdered them during Holy Week on Maundy Thursday, on the eve of Good Friday, reaches the Jewish community and the Jewish people on the eve of Passover.
In this season when we celebrate the liberation of the Jewish people from slavery, we extend our profound condolences to the families of the victims and to our Christian friends, neighbors and colleagues in the Metropolitan Chicago area. The selection of those to be murdered from amongst a larger population reminds us of our own recent catastrophe and magnifies both our horror and our compassion.
May this season of hope for Christians and of freedom from tyranny for Jews bring ever-greater resolve for all people of good will to rid this world of the evil of terrorism.
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