This bus — filled with members from a New York Reform synagogue and Orthodox synagogue — was one of hundreds like it that brought an unprecedented 290,000 to the March for Israel rally at the National Mall on Tuesday.
Congregants from the Orthodox synagogue said the morning shacharit prayers while Reform congregant Kim Rittberg held a sign made by her 8-year-old daughter that read, “Jewish things we love: Seinfeld, bagels, Einstein.”
This bus and its passengers were a microcosm of the many types of Jews drawn to the march, organized by The Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Once in DC, the full Jewish spectrum was on display: Orthodox and secular, right-wing, left-wing and apolitical, the crowd at the pro-Israel rally was striking in its diversity and in its strong show of unity in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack and the five weeks of war that followed. READ MORE
