German president after synagogue attack: ‘We must protect Jewish life’

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German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged solidarity with the country’s Jews one day after two were murdered in an attack on a synagogue.

On Wednesday, a gunman killed two people and injured several others near a synagogue in the German city of Halle during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism. Steinmeier called it a “day of shame and disgrace,” according to Reuters.

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