The Tree of Life shooter will likely receive the death penalty. Only one question remains
Five years after the most deadly attack against Jews in the United States, are we any safer?
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Opinion As the Pittsburgh shooter is sentenced to death, remember the lives of his victims
A closer look at the lives lost in the synagogue shooting
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News Postcard from Pittsburgh, on the 4th anniversary of Tree of Life massacre
For Barry Werber, a survivor of the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history, memory is a blessing and curse
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Fast Forward A Pittsburgh man is charged with stealing Judaica from dozens of Jewish homes
The suspect allegedly used a number of tactics to gain access to Jewish homes — including pretending he was Jewish
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Culture In Baltimore, a Jewish museum captures the precarity — and beauty — of American Jewish life
The improbable hybrid of a tallit, a Jewish prayer shawl, and a sajjada, a Muslim prayer rug. A family recipe for an Iraqi date pastry that evokes layers of Arab-Jewish identity. Glazed stoneware for trans Jews to use in ritual practice. A film of screen recordings and Zoom exchanges about disability and displacement. These works,…
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Opinion My husband survived the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. Pursuing the death penalty for the shooter would make things worse
The capital murder case against the perpetrator of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting is dragging on; the Poway shooter who committed his synagogue attack six months later has already received a sentence of life in prison without parole. This week’s two-day evidentiary hearing was filled with testimony from police officers recounting antisemitic comments made by…
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Books After the Tree of Life massacre, an inspiring story of a community coming together
Mark Oppenheimer tells the story of how the Pittsburgh Jewish community rebounded after tragedy
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh congregation asks DOJ to reverse course on death penalty for shooter
A Reconstructionist congregation that was housed in the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha building in Pittsburgh targeted in a deadly shooting in 2018 is asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to “abandon its quest for the death penalty” in the case against the accused shooter. In a June 17 letter to Garland, the president of Congregation Dor…
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