Run for their Lives is a global organization that walks and runs in support of the hostages still being held by Hamas.

It's the same group that was attacked in Boulder, Colorado, last weekend.

The Tenafly chapter of Run for Their Lives has been gathering every week since the hostages were first taken in 2023.

Ted Goldberg was at their walk today where they were more resolute than ever, even in the face of growing anti-Semitism.

The ten a fly chapter, a run for their lives stood about 100 strong today.

They're continuing to raise awareness for hostages held by Hamas.

Less than a week after a run for their lives group was attacked with Molotov cocktails in Colorado.

It was.

Horrifying.

It's scary that people can't just march peacefully in support of a cause.

They were not being loud or aggressive in any way.

And I felt that it was very important for us to show up, to show that we're going to continue marching on each and every week until all 56 hostages are released.

These walks have happened in ten a fly every Friday morning since November of 2023, after resident Eden Alexander was first taken hostage by Hamas.

Organizer Roberto Simran says the last few weeks have brought around 50 people each time, and he's not surprised that turnout doubled today.

No, actually, the expectation was attendance would be up.

Don't be afraid.

Ever.

It made me more determined to come out and support this walk.

Support the families of the hostages and support Israel.

I've been showing up this whole time and I wasn't going to stop now.

And I know the police are here today and I feel safe and I'm going to keep coming.

Ten or fly.

Police have sometimes come around for these walks, but they were definitely in force today.

Mayor Mark Zona says it was important to keep the walkers safe.

When I spoke to the organizers this week, you know, they were concerned about whether there was going to be sufficient security and police based on what happened in Boulder.

And so the police chief and I spoke and and he made arrangements to have the police officers here to make sure everyone's protected to the extent possible.

I think you just have to be cautious these days.

Certainly, we've seen things happen in the city.

We've had the occasional heckler even here in town, a fly.

But we continue to show up strong.

It's like 1939 out there and we have to go out and show support regardless of whether we're afraid or not afraid or whether it's dangerous or not dangerous.

The man who allegedly attacked the Walkers in Boulder faces 118 criminal charges, and authorities claim he said he wanted to kill all Zionist people.

Ilan Kripke has been a regular at walks in Tenafly.

I don't think this is related just to Israel.

This was attack on Jews.

If you see what happened, the shooting in D.C., that was a Jewish museum.

So I think it is about Jews being attacked.

Here and abroad.

And that's something that we're not going to stand for.

Jewish pride is one of our strongest weapons against toxic hatred.

Rabbi David Levy is the state director for the American Jewish Committee.

He says leaders need to do more publicly to criticize people who say anti-Semitic things or who criticize Israel in a way that could be considered anti-Semitic.

Society has the responsibility to call out that speech when it is dangerous, and we need our political leaders to do that.

We need to lead our leaders on campus to do that.

We need our religious leaders to do that.

In the meantime, walkers intend to fly, have no plans of backing down in the future.

It's always nice to see that people are not going to be bowed down and scared and that they're going to show up and resist.

We're not going to give up.

We're not going to be intimidated.

It's an important cause to all of us.

It's a humanitarian cause.

The hostages have to be back.

We're not going to fear terrorists that try to intimidate us or anything like that.

Despite the recent release of Edan Alexander, Hamas still has 56 hostages, about 20 of whom are believed to still be alive until they are brought home.

People will still walk instead of fly and at other run for their lives.

Events across New Jersey, the U.S. and the world intend to fly.

I'm Ted Goldberg.

NJ Spotlight News.