CLEVELAND — The Northeast Ohio Jewish community came together Friday following the two Israeli embassy workers who were shot and killed at a Jewish Museum event in Washington D.C on Thursday.

What You Need To Know

  • Two Israeli embassy workers were shot in Washington D.C. Thursday outside a Jewish Musuem event

  • People from the Northeast Ohio community came together at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland Friday morning to show their support 

  • Community, local and state leaders came together to mourn the lives lost 

Susan Borison was one of the many people who gathered to show their support.

“It is a moment of just such sadness,” she said.

The community gathered at the Jewish Federation of Cleveland. Borison said there’s an escalation of fear in the community.

“Two people are standing in the Capitol of our country, and they get shot and murdered because they are Jewish and Israeli,” Borison said.

State leaders from both parties were also in attendance, including Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne, Congresswoman Shontel Brown and Congressman Max Miller.

“We have to understand that some people really are out to hurt us, to end us, to make sure that we do not continue to exist,” Miller said.

Miller is Jewish and said that now is not the time for them to hide but time for them to fight back.

“Combat antisemitism and hate wherever we see it and to be aggressive about it,” he said.

Borison said seeing the community come together to show support gives her some hope.

“When the community comes together, the Jewish community and our friends, we feel supported, we feel like we are not in this alone,” she said.