Jared Kushner hasn’t had anything to say to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS). In the early days of the Trump administration, the organization shared with the president’s son-in-law documentation of his grandparents’ immigration to the United States, with no response, the New Yorker reported. It still hasn’t heard from him, days after a gunman…
As the names and ages of those lost in last week’s horrific massacre during Shabbat morning services at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue were released, one heartbreaking fact stood out: The victims were 11 worshippers, all between the ages of 54 and 97. The US Black community also lost two elders last week in a…
Richard Gottfried was “loyal” and a beloved dentist to his patients. Friends and family lined up in the afternoon to pay their respects at the funeral for Gottfried, 65, who was one of 11 people slain in the Pittsburgh synagogue rampage. Gottfried shared a practice with his wife, Peg. Dr. Jane Segal, a dentist who…
The only couple to die in the Pittsburgh synagogue bloodbath were laid to rest Thursday. Late on an overcast Thursday morning, mourners trickled into the Ralph Schugar Chapel for the funeral of Sylvan Simon, 86, and his wife, Bernice, 84, who had been married for nearly 62 years. He was a retired accountant, she a…
(JTA) — The pastor of the mother of the suspected gunman in the Pittsburgh synagogue attack said she is “hurting for the Jewish community.” The woman, identified as Barbara, is “really saddened,” Pastor Mark Schollaert of First Baptist Church in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Wednesday evening. The woman lives near the church with…
Anti-Semitism isn’t new — and it isn’t dead. There are still two million fewer Jews alive today than there were in 1939. Jews represent less than 2% of the U.S. population and less than 0.2% of the world’s population. Yet, despite our small numbers, Jews are victims of more reported hate crimes than any other…
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…
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…
מאַטי מענדלאָוויטשעס ברודער, וואָס האָט יאָרן לאַנג געליטן פֿון דעפּרעסיע, האָט הײַיאָר זיך גענומען דאָס לעבן. .
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