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ADL San Diego regional First-time host of summer shlichim director visits, talks about encourages more families to get involved Poway synagogue shooting NICK ENQUIST | STAFF WRITER
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efore the April 27 shooting at Chabad of Poway in California, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League of San Diego, Tammy Gillies, was told by her colleagues in law enforcement that it wasn’t a question of if a shooting would happen, but when. “I heard that and I thought, ‘Yeah, OK, it’s a question of when.’ But until it happens in your town, you really don’t think it will,” Gillies said. After the Poway shooting, Gillies was one of several ADL representatives summoned to accompany law enforcement during victim interviews. “I walked into the command center and saw the chief, the sheriff, the special agent in charge from the FBI, people that I have been working with for years. When they looked at me, I saw the heartbreak in their eyes that this happened to my community.” Gillies was the special guest speaker at ADL Arizona’s Town Hall on Anti-Semitism, which took place at Temple Solel on June 13. The event was moderated by ADL Arizona Regional board member Bradley Pack, and also featured law enforcement representatives from both the federal and local levels. The shooting at the Chabad of Poway, which resulted in one death and three injuries, took place exactly six months after the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha synagogue building massacre in Pittsburgh. After the attack in Poway, Gillies coordinated with local law enforcement to act as a liaison with the Jewish community. “I was sent to the rabbi’s house and I was assisting law enforcement to interview the victims,” Gillies said in an interview before the town hall.
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alley of the Sun JCC Chief Operating Of ficer Kim Subrin has worked with the Jewish Agency for Israel since 2001, assisting with its shlichim program that brings young Israeli emissaries to the U.S. But in the 18 years that she’s collaborated on the project, Subrin never hosted shlichim herself — until last month, when Subrin welcomed two visiting Israelis into her home. Now the guests are like family. SEE SHLICHIM, PAGE 3
Shlichim Raz Bidkar, left, and Aviv Ben Sira, right, stand with their summer host, Kim Subrin. PHOTO COURTESY OF KIM SUBRIN
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