WASHINGTON — Jewish community members gathered at the French Embassy on Sunday for a gala to honor Esther Safran Foer and David M. Rubenstein.

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser congratulated Foer and Rubenstein for their honor and highlighted the Capital Jewish Museum, which hosted the gala.

“It challenges each of us to consider our own place in history,” Bowser said.

The event was one of the first in DC since President Donald Trump’s federal surge of law enforcement in the city officially ended on Wednesday.

Although the federal emergency is officially over, National Guard troops will remain in Washington through December.

Bowser says she’ll continue to work with federal authorities to address crime. She called on attendees to remember that DC is bigger than its problems.

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