On Saturday, after shouting “all Jews must die,” Robert Bowers callously murdered 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh, the worst anti-Semitic act of violence in American history according to the Anti-Defamation League. Bowers, like many anti-Semites in the United States and Europe, believes Jews are the…
In a vigil on Sunday night, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers who was presiding over the service at the Pittsburgh synagogue Tree of Life on Saturday when the gunman murdered praying congregants called on leaders to “stop the words of hate.”
The doctor who runs the hospital that treated the alleged perpetrator of the Sabbath-morning massacre in a Pittsburgh synagogue is also a member of that synagogue — and he introduced himself to the shooter. Dr. Jeff Cohen lives in Tree of Life synagogue’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, and is the president of Allegheny General Hospital, which…
Some 2,500 people gathered on Sunday at a memorial service for the 11 Jewish worshipers slain in their Pittsburgh synagogue during Shabbat services, a mass murder the mayor called the city’s “darkest hour” while exhorting mourners to “defeat hate with love.” Several speakers addressing an overflow crowd at the University of Pittsburgh’s Soldiers and Sailors…
After Daniel Stein was killed during the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh on Saturday, his son Joe posted a photo on Facebook of Daniel playing with his new grandson. “My dad was a simple man and did not require much,” Joe wrote. “In the picture below he was having a great day doing two things he…
Even at age 88, Melvin Wax knew how important it was to stand up for others. Wax, who was killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue rampage, was among the first to volunteer to help the shul’s partner, Rodman Street Missionary Baptist Church, when it held a clothing drive to help people in North Carolina affected by…
Parishoners at the historic black Emanuel church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Sunday grieved this weekend’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and recalled a 2015 mass shooting at their church, while chiding President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric of hate.” “Words do matter,” Reverend Eric Manning told more than 100 parishioners attending the Sunday service. The church planned a…
In a stunningly apt display of victim-blaming, Donald Trump said on Saturday that the outcome of the anti-Semitic attack on Tree of Life synagogue that left 11 Jews dead would have been different if the Pittsburgh congregants had been armed. Before boarding a flight to several events — one of which being one of his…
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