The community generally wants to get it over with - to put it behind us and move on,

I have been in touch with several rabbis around the community, and we're holding a meeting on Wednesday to see what collectively we can do, whether it's providing information in Russian to the Russian Jews, or holding meetings at different venues.

The only way to fight back is to do what we do best and hope the community supports us.

There is definitely a difference between (large businesses) and a mom-and-pop business that lives, sleeps, eats the community where it is involved.

This community is never going to forget. Can it get to the point of seeing this as one individual or situation, and moving to forgive in that respect? Hopefully. But it is not going to happen overnight, or because of the trial or a one-year anniversary or a 10-year anniversary.

We haven't been reimbursed yet because we haven't applied and we haven't applied because the feds haven't told us what the process is to be reimbursed.