Funerals will be held on Wednesday for two victims of a mass shooting at their Pittsburgh synagogue, including the man who was leading shabbat services when the attack – in which 11 worshipers died – took place. Melvin Wax, 88, and retired university researcher Joyce Fienberg, 75, will be remembered in separate services, local media…
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….
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….
This past weekend, Americans were devastated and heartbroken by the deadliest attack against the American Jewish community in history. Israeli officials journeyed to Pittsburgh to stand in solidarity with the Tree of Life Congregation. Flags around the country were lowered to half mast, and thousands gathered at synagogues and common spaces across the globe to…
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…
In the last 24 hours, my home became a headline. 11 Jews were shot during Saturday morning services at Tree of Life Synagogue — where my sister taught Hebrew school and I went to my first bat mitzvah. The Squirrel Hill Jewish community, which has been such a glowing and prominent feature of my upbringing,…
Mister Rogers was a neighbor of Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill, where a mass shooting took the lives of 11 at prayer in a local synagogue. With one drawing, an artist effectively summed up how he would — and many do — feel in the wake of the tragedy. Artist Sasha Phillips drew a photo of Fred…
Congregation Mickve Israel, located in Savannah, Georgia, was preparing for its annual Shalom Y’all Jewish Food Festival when they heard about the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh. As the third oldest Jewish Congregation in America, recently celebrating its 285th birthday, Mickve Israel requires a high level of security, and for the last three years, they’ve had…
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