Today at 8:00 PM, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams will join interfaith leaders, elected officials and concerned Brooklynites in a candlelight vigil for three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped last Thursday night, an incident which has stoked emotions locally; one of the boys, 16-year-old Naftali Frenkel, is an American citizen whose grandparents moved to Israel from Flatbush in 1956 and who has many family members still living in the area.

The kidnapping has spawned a #BringBackOurBoys social media campaign in similar fashion to the #BringBackOurGirls movement generated by the 300 Nigerian girls still missing from their abduction by a radical group in April; Borough President Adams will speak out about both tragedies and their impact here in Brooklyn.

(YWN Desk – NYC)