Jewish New Yorkers respond to ‘Day of Hate’ with prayers for peace

NEW YORK — Threats of a national day of antisemitic hate sent Elizabeth Walsh to pray Saturday in her Upper East Side, Manhattan, synagogue. “I think it’s terrible, so I came to pray for peace,” the 66-year-old woman said at Temple Emanu-El on East 65th Street. “Pray for the people that have supported this day of hate, so that they could see that this is just as hateful for them, and for their own people ... It’s a disease.” Gov. Kathy Hochul, speaking at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in Midtown Manhattan, fired back against the plans announced on social media by anonymous organizers for an ...