Run, hide or fight: 5T weighs what to do if terror strikes

The Five Towns will consider something of a worse-case scenario on Sunday, when a Cedarhurst shul hosts a community meeting on “surviving an active shooter event.”

The forum, open to the entire community, is set for 9:45 am at Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi, 395 Oakland Ave.

“We’re talking because it’s happened” elsewhere, explained Rabbi Yaakov Feitman, Bais Yehudah Tzvi’s spiritual leader. He emphasized that Sunday’s meeting was not the result of any specific threat against a local insititution.

“We’re not trying to scare anybody,” he said, but “given what’s happened around the world, every individual needs to know what to do.”

“You don’t wait until there’s a particular threat against you,” Rabbi Feitman said. “Every Jew in particular needs to be prepared for such an eventuality.”

What to do as a terrorist action unfolds — run, hide or fight? —will be discussed by Chris Zaberto, a retired NYPD Detective who is chief operating officer of the Ten91 security group.

“In today’s current climate we must all be vigilant to ensure the safety of our children, friends and family,” states the public invitation to Sunday’s event.