Excerpt: Rabbi Baruch Frydman-Kohl said one of his High Holiday sermons at Beth Tzedec focused on the Syrian refugee issue.
The synagogue’s executive and board of governors agreed to take up the cause during the summer. The shul made contact with the relatives of an Ismaili Muslim family who have relatives who fled Syria and were living in Turkey.
The Ismailis practise “a liberal, tolerant brand of Islam,” Rabbi Frydman-Kohl said. “We think this might be the family we will be sponsoring.“
Our focus is on family re-unification and while we are not looking at specific ethnic and religious groups, some ethnic, religious groups are more endangered,” he said.So far the synagogue has raised close to $27,000.
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