Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who got his start in religious life on Long Island, was injured in the shooting that killed a woman Saturday at a San Diego synagogue. He spoke from California via a video connection about the harrowing encounter with the gunman to a group gathered in Dix Hills on Tuesday. 


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