Dozens of rabbis and cantors prayed, sang and blew rams’ horns outside the Israeli Consulate General in Brentwood Monday, calling for immediate food aid to Gazans, an end to the war in Gaza and the safe return home for hostages in Hamas captivity.

Outside the consulate, a group of about 30 people led by a coalition of rabbis urged for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The event was independently organized by dozens of rabbis across denominations in the Jewish community in Los Angeles County. Similar actions have taken place with rabbis throughout the nation as part of a growing resistance movement of Israelis in opposition to the war, according to the L.A. group.

“We will not let you be until all of the hostages are returned,” Rabbi Kerry Chaplin, who previously worked as a spiritual

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