A Brighton synagogue drew 2,000 people for a vigil in the wake of Pittsburgh’s mass shooting.

People from all walks of life came together at the Temple B'rith Kodesh, Sunday evening to pay tribute to those lives lost.

“It’s really an answer to hate and I hope it’s a message that will resonate out in the community and we all have to stand together in difficult times like this,” said Hobart and William Smith Colleges Professor of Religious Studies, Michael Dobkowski.

Hearing that a holocaust survivor was killed during the shooting, Hungarian holocaust survivor Lea Malek pleads change.

“Another shooting, another bombing,” she states. “If people don’t get educated and if people don’t learn, it could happen again and I hope to God I am wrong.”

Security measures have been heightened locally.

“I’m sure yesterday in Pittsburgh there was no concern that it was going to rise to the level that it did," said Brighton Police Chief Mark Henderson. "Our prayers and thoughts are with the victims, their family, and the first responders who responded to that horrific incident.”

Rabbi Peter Stein began the service with encouraging words.

“What’s important is that we come together and say the world will be better; there’s peace in the future; there is hope in the future,” Stein said.