One year ago, Hamas terrorists stormed Israeli settlements along the 25-mile border of the Gaza Strip, shooting, raping, beating, burning and kidnapping men, women and children in what many have described as a modern-day pogrom. 

It was the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust, with 1,200 people killed and over 100 prisoners still held hostage in Gaza. In the months of war that followed, upwards of 40,000 Palestinians have been killed, and Israel is facing war on multiple fronts.  

Anger over the war has come to America, too, in the form of sky-rocketing antisemitism; attacks on college campuses and bomb threats at synagogues.

New York state Assemblymember Nily Rozic, the first Israeli-American elected to the state Legislature, joined Capital Tonight to discuss what the commemoration means for Jews around the world who are also currently celebrating the High Holidays.