After her synagogue was attacked, Mandy Bentley had nightmares about going back into the building, especially with her three children.
Nearly two months ago, an assailant rammed a car into people on their way to Yom Kippur services outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, England, then got out and started stabbing several with a knife. Two synagogue members were killed in the Oct. 2 attack, one by the attacker, the other, accidentally, by the police. The alleged assailant, a 35-year-old Syrian-born U.K. citizen, was shot and killed by police.
“I was really unsure what I was going to do,” said Bentley, 38, a mother of two boys and a girl who lives in Manchester. “I had really bad anxiety over, like, what will happen? I won’t be able to protect them. How would I save my children?”
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