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“It is a struggle that is lacking when it doesn’t discuss the root of the problems,” Hazzan said.

Reem Hazzan, a political activist, said she accepted an invitation to speak at a protest last month in the northern city of Haifa but backed out at the last minute after she said organizers asked for changes to her speech, saying it was not the right tone for the demonstration.

“To me, in the end, the most critical thing is not that people stand there with their jaws literally hanging on the ground as they look at it,” Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers of Tree of Life said.

Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers, the rabbi of the Pittsburgh synagogue attacked last October by an anti-Semitic gunman, told those gathered religious freedom cannot rest on laws alone, but must be accompanied by a changing of cultural attitudes.

"This is worse than 1950. It's one thing to lose a game where you suffered and fought hard, and it's another to be completely humiliated," said Fernando Hazzan, 28, in Sao Paulo.