The recent rise of anti-Semitic attacks in the New York area prompted Jewish organizations last week to organize a solidarity march under the banner “No Hate. No Fear.” The march was organized by UJA Federation of New York, along with the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, Anti-Defamation League-New York, American Jewish Committee-New York, and the New York Board of Rabbis.

Thousands came out in the brisk cold to protest anti-semitism, gathering in Lower Manhattan before crossing the Brooklyn Bridge and coming together for a rally in Brookyln’s Camden Plaza.

The march did not just attract local Jews but also non-Jewish allies who wanted to lend their voices to the cause and take a stance against anti-Semitism. And hundreds came in Jewish delegations from New Jersey, Connecticut, Cleveland, Boston, Central Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., Montreal, and Toronto to attend the march and rally in New York. The Jewish Agency for Israel’s New York employees, regional Shlichim (Israeli emissaries), and local supporters joined the showing of solidarity, too.

Leaders from the organizing groups and community leaders, both Jewish and non-Jewish, spoke at the Camden Plaza rally.

“We come here on a historic first Sunday of the new decade to make a statement that any attack, any violent attack, against a visibly Orthodox Jew is an attack against all Jews, is an attack against all New Yorkers, and is an attack of all people of goodwill everywhere,” said UJA-Federation of New York CEO Eric Goldstein. “We say no to hate and we say no to fear.”