Pope Francis on Sunday strongly condemned the attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, calling for the stamping out of “hotbeds of hate” and for stronger moral and civil values. Speaking to pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square after a Mass, Francis said that Saturday’s attack, in which 11 worshippers were killed and six others injured, was…
President Trump joked about his “bad hair day” after being forced to stop to talk to reporters in the rain about the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in which 11 people were killed. After briefly mentioning the shooting, Trump displayed a shocking lack of tact by quickly pivoting to his own appearance at an Indianapolis political rally….
Jewish leaders, politicians and Israeli leaders react with horror
(JTA) — In the aftermath of the horrific shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 dead, prominent Jews on Twitter are speaking out about their identity and sharing messages of solidarity. Ivanka Trump, who is Jewish, said she stands with the Jewish people and called the gunman, identified as 46-year-old Robert Bowers, a “depraved…
The day that the American Jewish community experienced the most deadly anti-Semitic hate crime directed at it in the history of the United States was also Shabbat, the weekly Jewish day of rest. So when Shabbat ended at sundown in the densely Jewish town of Squirrel Hill, where a gunman killed 11 Jews at prayer,…
Alleged Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers used the web site Gab.com to express anti-Semitic views. Here is some information about the site, which said it suspended his account and contacted the authorities after the arrest. Gab launched in 2016 as a “free-speech” alternative to Twitter. Its founder, Andrew Torba, said existing sites like Twitter and…
Mark Hetfield was in synagogue on Saturday morning, attending a bar mitzvah. He couldn’t figure out why his phone wouldn’t stop buzzing. When he checked his messages, Hetfield, who is the executive director of the Jewish refugee aid group HIAS, learned that the suspect in the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue had posted obsessively about…
The suspect in the synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh on Saturday was obsessed with the Jewish refugee aid group HIAS, according to posts on a social media account that he appears to have operated. Robert Bowers’ account, which has since been deleted by the social networking site Gab, included posts that accused HIAS of “bring[ing] in…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he was “heartbroken and appalled” by a shooting attack in a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed at least eight people. “The entire people of Israel grieve with the families of the dead. We stand together with the Jewish community of Pittsburgh, we stand together with the American people…
President Trump blamed the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on the lack of armed security and insisted it had little to do with lax gun laws. “This is a case where if they had an armed guard inside, they might have been able to stop him immediately,” Trump told reporters just hours after the…
The man who allegedly was responsible for mailing bombs to several Democrats and media figures shared in March an anti-Semitic meme of billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros. Cesar Sayoc was arrested on Friday after he was identified as a suspect behind the recent string of mail-bombs, which were dressed as suspicious packages and sent…
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