MARTIN: A way of saying we share your pain and our lives are not going on as normal, he told us. And the point is, not that the people who are visiting have answers or a way of removing the pain that people are feeling, but just a way of connecting and saying, we are with you together. HERZFELD: During Shiva, the mourners sit and other people come and embrace the mourners. He compared it to sitting Shiva, a Jewish tradition. So Rabbi Herzfeld decided to ask members of his congregation to go with him to a local gay bar as a gesture of support. But walking to synagogue on Sunday afternoon, a neighbor told me what had happened. This past week was the holiday of Shavuot from Saturday through Monday night - late.
SHMUEL HERZFELD: We don't use electronics on our holidays and on our Sabbath. He told us he didn't know about the shooting until later in the day because it happened early in the morning on a Jewish holiday. It involves a local rabbi here in Washington, D.C, Shmuel Herzfeld, of Ohev Sholom, the National Synagogue. And one in particular caught our attention. Now, we just heard some members of our roundtable say they don't think they've seen quite the same outpouring of support as they've witnessed after other tragedies, but there have been some.
