Manhattan Beach Pier lights up in blue and white in solidarity with Israel
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”2808″ display=”pro_mosaic”]by Kevin Cody On Wednesday, October 11, at sunset, for the second time in less than a week, the lights that line the Manhattan Beach pier glowed blue and white. Last Friday, October 6, the colors were in memory of Manhattan Beach Police Officer Chad Swanson, who died in a collision while riding his motorcycle to work. On Wednesday, the blue and white lights were in observance of a similarly unfathomable tragedy, but this one was many times the magnitude. Last Saturday, one day after Officer Swanson’s accident, Hamas invaded Israel. Saturday was the final day of Sukkot, which commemorates the 40 years the Jewish people wandered in the desert after fleeing slavery in Egypt. The blue and white pier lights Wednesday evening were part of a show of solidarity with Israel, organized by local Jewish and Christian leaders, and attended by over 500 people. Chabad of the Beach Cities’ Rabbi Yossi Mintz greeted the gathering at the pierhead by relating his response to being asked if he has brothers or sisters in Israel. “I tell them, yes. Seven million.” He thanked representatives of the different religious groups who helped organize the…
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