Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, was "a true Eshet Chayil, a Woman of Valor," her friend said. The woman who died Saturday after a gunman opened fire at a synagogue in Poway , near San Diego, died saving the rabbi, her friend said. Lori Gilbert Kaye, 60, was killed in the attack, which occurred on Shabbat, the last day of Passover, and the six-month anniversary of the deadly synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. Kaye was "a true Eshet Chayil, a Woman of Valor," her friend Audrey Jacobs wrote in a Facebook post. "You were always running to do a mitzvah (good deed) and gave tzedaka (charity) to everyone," Jacobs said. According to CNN , Kaye died after she stepped in between the gunman and the synagogue's founding rabbi, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. Goldstein, 57, suffered gunshot wounds to both his index fingers, and will likely lose his right one, a doctor at the Palomar Medical Center reportedly said. As he was being taken into surgery, Goldste...
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