{"id":367483,"date":"2026-10-08T02:36:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367483\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T02:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:36:45","slug":"news-12-bronx-brooklyn-community-calls-for-permanent-oct-7-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367483\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Brooklyn Community Calls For Permanent Oct 7 Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Three years after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, a Brooklyn community is vowing not to forget.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Elected officials and Jewish community leaders in Gravesend are calling for a permanent Oct. 7 memorial at Mickey Kairay Garden.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">More than 1,000 people, including American citizens, were killed in the attacks, and more than 200 others were taken hostage by Hamas.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jewish Community Relations Council of New York CEO Mark Treyger says the memorial will honor those who were killed and ensure their stories are never forgotten.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cOct. 7 was the most brutal terror attack against Jews since the Holocaust,\u201d Treyger said. \u201cWe remember. We built, we tried to heal, bring folks together. The haters love to destroy a race and divide. They will not have the last word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Community leaders say the memorial will be privately funded and maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three years after the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, a Brooklyn community is vowing not to forget. Elected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-367483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}