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Trump marks National Day of Prayer with synagogue victims
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has celebrated the National Day of Prayer with victims of last weekend’s California synagogue shooting.
Trump and rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of the Chabad of Poway synagogue spoke by telephone after Saturday’s shooting. Goldstein told celebrants during a ceremony Thursday in the White House Rose Garden that Trump was the first person “who began my healing.”
Goldstein thanked Trump for being, “as they say in Yiddish, a mensch par excellence.” Mensch is Yiddish for a “person of integrity and honour.” Trump said Goldstein is an “incredible man.”
Two other victims of the shooting, including an off-duty Border Patrol agent who fired at the alleged gunman, attended the ceremony.
One woman was killed and three others were injured in the shooting, including the rabbi, who lost a finger.
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This story has been corrected to say the ceremony took place Thursday, not Wednesday.
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