“We will not let the acts of a vicious individual or small group deter us from staying in a place the Jewish people have called home for well over a century,” said Tobias Mendelson, president of the Jewish Federation of Huntsville and North Alabama. “This is a time for all us—Jews and non-Jews alike—to join together and do everything in our power to end the scourge of hatred, bigotry, and intolerance.”