Suzanne Gamboa is a national reporter for NBC Latino and NBCNews.com
Fernando Russek, 51, a Jewish resident of South Texas who was born in Mexico, spoke with urgency and strength about 'people on the side of good' standing with Israel and speaking out against the attack by Hamas. But he couldn’t maintain the bravado as he disclosed that his daughter is fighting in the war because she is a captain in the Israeli army and that his brother, a reservist, was reactivated two weeks before he was to have opened a restaurant in Israel.
But in a sign of changing demographics, nearly 3 in 10 Jewish adults under 30 identified as Hispanic, Black, Asian, other race or multiracial. Some Latino Jewish families have immigrated to the U.S. in recent decades amid turmoil in Latin America. In St. Louis, Daniel Platschek, 51, who immigrated to the U.S. from Venezuela over 30 years ago, is very active in the city’s Latino community, including the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and a Hispanic leaders group.
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