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Posted By richards on January 16, 2015

January 14, 2015 2:20 PM

Memorial for French victims at Chicago Loop Synagogue. (Credit: Steve Miller)

Steve Miller is an investigative reporter and has been with Newsradio...

(CBS) A few hundred people gathered at the Chicago Loop Synagogue Wednesday at noon for a service to remember the victims of the attacks in France last week.

The names of the seventeen people who were killed were read. One of those who read the names: David Benkemoun, a Frenchman whos been living in Chicago for the past year.

As a French citizen and as a Jew, when you see the country where you grew up shaken at its roots when you see the people you love afraid for their life, scared and you are far away from them (and) you cannot be with them you feel devastated. You feel alone.

And that was my mistake. I felt alone. I forgot I belong to something greater. When I look around me today, I see you all standing with us as a people.

Among those on the program, a representative of the Islam Cultural Center.

The service was hosted by the Jewish United Fund.

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Loop Synagogue Holds Ceremony Remembering Victims Of Paris Attacks

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