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Recognizing October 7 Revisited

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 20, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mrs. KIGGANS of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record remarks submitted at the request of a Virginia Beach constituent, Rabbi Dr. Israel Zoberman of Temple Lev Tikvah, and are a reflection of his views:

October 7 Revisited. Prophet Habakkak's haunting Biblical. Words come true on a sacred turned scarred Day robbed of its joys, ``For a stone shall cry out From the wall.'' Once loving homes where the Divine forged an abode turned Into blackened stones soaked from Hatred--filled wells of blood and fire, With walls of witness wailing in silence Of strewn bodies, young and old bonded. In death as in life, for the land of ubiquitous. Memorials again and again and again, Till when? Of snuffed dreams in a hunting field. Where dancing-- davening flowers held. Sway till halted singing from deep within. Surging souls yearning to bond across. Man--made borders--barriers to be. Breached for war or peace, To yet prevail with heightened cadence. Of Shalom's invisible, ever--surviving promise!

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