Elya Piazza is pictured here with glasses and short hair, protesting for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Hamas conflict at 30th Street Station alongside hundreds of young Jews and others. - Charles Fox/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS
PHILADELPHIA — Rabbi Lonnie Kleinman of Mount Airy was arrested at the U.S. Capitol three weeks ago, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Soon after her arrest was broadcast on Fox News, she received a text message from her father. He said he was deeply disappointed, and that her grandparents, who survived the Holocaust, would have been devastated if they were still alive, Kleinman said. She and her father are not currently speaking, she said. “He is acting from a place of wanting to protect the Jewish people and honor his parents’ legacy. And so am I,” said Kleinman, who is 32. “We’re just going ...
