Synagogues across New Zealand will be closed for Shabbat services out of both a sense of solidarity as well as precaution after a shooter killed 49 worshippers at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.
“For the first time in history synagogues in NZ are closed on Shabbat following the shocking massacre of Muslims in Christchurch,” tweeted Jewish Agency chairman Isaac Herzog on Friday.
(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
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