Current events in America have been brutal. Last Saturday’s terror attack at the Tree of Life synaoguge — arguably the deadliest assault on Jews in American history — was yet another horrific tragedy. Jewish organizations have rightly been condemning this hateful act, standing together with countless non-Jewish allies in the process. This is an important…
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…
(JTA) — Far right wing Israeli minister Naftali Bennett defended President Donald Trump against critics who have tied Trump’s rhetoric to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. “Using the horrible anti-Semitic massacre to attack the president is unfair, it’s wrong,” Bennett told JTA in a phone interview Tuesday. “He condemned anti-Semitism in the strongest possible words. Clearly…
President Trump visited the Pittsburgh synagogue where eleven Jews were massacred Saturday as growing protests of up to 2,000 people also converged on the scene Tuesday afternoon. They were greeted by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who led them inside the temple. Emerging about 18 minutes later, the president went to a memorial outside the building, where…
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…
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