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Pittsburgh Shooting Has Jews Wondering If They Should Pack Heat In Synagogue
When President Trump claimed that the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh could have been prevented if there had been “protection” inside, reactions in the Jewish community were split. Many liberal Jews — including the family of a man injured in the massacre — felt he was blaming the synagogue for the…
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Pittsburgh Shows True Grit As Iconic Judaica Store Toughs It Out After Tragedy
PITTSBURGH — Signs of life began to appear on the fifth day of mourning in Pittsburgh, even amid the onslaught of funerals, shiva calls and community gatherings. Parent-teacher conferences were held at the Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh girls’ building. The Community Day School celebrated a bar mitzvah at its morning prayers. And Pinsker’s Judaica Center…
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Israeli Clown Helps Pittsburgh Heal After Bloodbath — With A Crazy Smile And Big Red Nose
Nimrod Eisenberg is fond of big, red, bulbous stick-on noses; neckties wide as pillowcases and making funny faces: He is a medical clown, a Tel Aviv native whose Israeli organization, the Dream Doctors Project, has helped heal children traumatized by natural disasters in Nepal, Haiti and Uganda. Now he’s in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of…
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Women Victims Of Pittsburgh Bloodbath Get Erased By Hasidic Newspaper
A Hasidic newspaper left faces of the female victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre out of a front page spread on the tragedy. On the cover of its November 2 edition, the weekly Yiddish-language tabloid Di Tzeitung ran photos of the eight men slaughtered last Saturday at Tree of Life congregation in Pittsburgh. Underneath, in…
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A GOP Rising Star Asks Jews For Jesus ‘Rabbi’ To Pray For Pittsburgh. What Could Go Wrong?
What was Lena Epstein thinking? The Jewish Republican congressional candidate was already taking on political water by embracing President Trump, even as his popularity plunges in her suburban Detroit swing district. Then the onetime GOP rising star invited a Messianic Jewish “rabbi” to pray for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre during a heavily…
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The Bizarro Plot To Smear Robert Mueller Has Some Crazy Jewish Angles
A pro-Trump Jewish hedge fund prodigy and a Seth Rich conspiracy theorist tried to frame special counsel Robert Mueller — yes, that Robert Mueller — for supposed sexual harassment. They hatched a plot that wound up unraveling badly after it was uncovered by a Twitter-famous set of twins and was pitched to star journalist Ronan…
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Jewish Students Honor Pittsburgh’s Victims At Homemade Holocaust Memorial
A Jewish school in Pittsburgh boasts one of the city’s landmarks: a Holocaust memorial sculpture, created by an artist from 6 million aluminum tabs that the students collected over almost five years. When the Community Day School dedicated the sculpture, called “Keeping Tabs,” the feeling was that such an elaborate effort was necessary to help…
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‘President Hate’ Greeted By Protests And Unity In Heartbroken Jewish Pittsburgh
They came in their thousands, singing Jewish songs and folksy protest anthems like “This Land Is Your Land.” Holding signs denouncing Donald Trump as “President Hate,” they marched in the fall sunshine through the tree-lined streets of Squirrel Hill, the quintessential Pittsburgh Jewish neighborhood that was scarred forever by deadly violence a few days earlier….
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Pittsburgh Brothers Buried As They Lived, Together, And Sheltered By Their Faith
Rodef Shalom Congregation in Pittsburgh is the oldest synagogue in Western Pennsylvania — but nothing in its long history was quite like what happened there Tuesday, when it hosted the funerals of brothers Cecil and David Rosenthal, who were two of 11 people killed while praying at the nearby Tree of Life Congregation on Saturday….
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On Day Of Mourning, Jewish Pittsburgh Braces For Divisive Trump
If the man who massacred 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday had arrived an hour later, Stan Angrist’s wife would have been in the line of fire. Instead, Angrist buried his close friend and his personal physician, Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, on Tuesday afternoon. The funeral drew hundreds of mourners. It took place just…
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60 Years Ago It Was A Bomb In An Atlanta Synagogue
This was originally in the print edition of October 24, 1958, and was posted online in October 2018. October, close to the Jewish New Year, seems to be peak season for American anti-Semitic violence. Sixty years ago, in October 1958, America’s first successful satellite launch was followed swiftly on the front page of the Yiddish…
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