LAS VEGAS ( FOX5 ) — An emotional ceremony was held Tuesday at Congregation Ner Tamid (CNT) Synagogue in Henderson.

The culmination of what has been two years of stress for Rabbi Cookie Lea Olshein.

“It’s not two years. It was 783 days,” Rabbi Olshein said.

“783 mornings in captivity, 783 times that these individuals went to sleep not knowing whether they would be safe to wake up tomorrow.”

CNT Synagogue’s resident rabbinic scholar told FOX 5 about her experience living through disaster, calling Israel home during the second Intifada.

“Crazy people were blowing up buses on my street. I feel like I’m connected to this act of terrorism in a different way than, thank God, most people in America are,” Rabbi Olshein said.

A perspective Rabbi Olshein hoped to share with the community dur

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