Rabbi Jen Lader shared plans to lobby Congress for increased funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which supports security upgrades for nonprofits. She emphasized that the goal is protecting every community of Americans that gathers to pray, not only Jewish communities. She credited security personnel and rigorous staff training for preventing fatalities in the March attack on her congregation, and warned that without those resources the outcome could have been worse. More than 400 Jewish leaders traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for higher NSGP funding. The program can pay for measures such as door locks, security cameras, and bollards to stop vehicle attacks. The lobbying effort followed a deadly mosque attack in San Diego, raising concerns about preparedness.
"“It's tragic that we have to be thinking about this in the same way that TSA protects airports and businesses protect their premises, but we have to,” said Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, the group leading the lobbying effort this week. The advocacy push on Capitol Hill happened to come just one day after two teenagers attacked a San Diego mosque, killing three men and themselves.”"
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