Pittsburgh’s Jews, united by Tree of Life shooting, divided by election and Gaza war
In Pennsylvania’s second city, a tight-knit Jewish community grapples with traumas past and present
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Fast Forward Police and FBI investigating second antisemitic assault at University of Pittsburgh in weeks
A student told police that a group of men assaulted him after first making derogatory comments about Israel
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Fast Forward Man arrested after allegedly attacking Jewish students at University of Pittsburgh
The campus Hillel said the injured students were part of a group walking to Shabbat dinner together
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Fast Forward 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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