Pittsburgh Israel-boycott referendum is dead after DSA declines to defend it in court
The local federation and multiple rabbis had filed legal challenges to the referendum
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Jewish groups hope to quash a referendum that would force the city to boycott Israel
Though unlikely to make the ballot, the referendum has prompted a top staffer in the mayor’s office who supported it to resign
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Jewish community targeted with antisemitic graffiti
The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and Chabad of Squirrel Hill were vandalized
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News ‘The tree is still growing’: At the site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, Tree of Life breaks ground on its future
Doug Emhoff, Gov. Josh Shapiro, Wolf Blitzer and others helped break ground on a new facility that will house a sanctuary and a museum about antisemitism
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Fast Forward California woman sentenced for hundreds of phone threats to Tree of Life synagogue
Melanie Harris, 59, began menacing the synagogue within months of the attack
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Antisemitism Decoded Can you address antisemitism at the ballot box?
A new political action committee in Pittsburgh seeks to score and donate to candidates based on how favorable they are to Jews
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Fast Forward US court sentences white supremacist who threatened Pittsburgh jurors, witnesses to 6 years
A serial hate-monger acknowledged that he targeted people because they were Jewish.
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Fast Forward First plans for Tree of Life memorial unveiled
The memorial to the 11 victims of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history will feature elements honoring each life lost
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