Vigil Brings Together Oneonta, Cooperstown Standing-Room-Only Crowd Seeks Meaning In Violent Deaths Of 7 Men By LIBBY CUDMORE • for www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – At the end of the Community Candlelight Vigil, the Rev. Cynthia Walton-Leavitt, pastor of Oneonta’s “Red Door” Presbyterian Church, implored those in attendance to acknowledge their neighbors. “In my church, we do what’s called the ‘Passing of the Peace’,” she said. “Let’s do that here today.” Everyone – there was standing room only in the Temple Beth El on…
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As Prayers For Peace Offered, Holocaust Horrors Remembered By LIBBY CUDMORE • for AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – As candles flickered in remembrance of the six million Jews and five million others killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust, Nathan Batalion, Oneonta, shared his story. “My stepfather, Gabriel Bross, was a shoe-maker,” he said. “He survived five different concentration camps because the soldiers needed boots, and even though they said they would kill him when it was all over, the allies freed him.”…
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