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Fast Forward Meet Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, The ‘Adopted Jew’ Who’s Leading Resistance To Trump
Bill Peduto, the mayor of Pittsburgh, could be easily be mistaken for a Jew in the right setting. Lately he has sported a white beard with horn-rimmed glasses; his penchant for puns and jokes is well-known. And for Peduto, the murder of 11 congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday was more than…
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Opinion I’m Israeli And I’m Ashamed My Government Sent Naftali Bennett To Comfort Pittsburgh Jews
In the wake of the massacre that led 11 dead in a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Trump is making his way there despite 26,000 Jews who signed a petition that he stay away. He’s not the only unwelcome politician to use the tragedy for a photo-op. The State of Israel sent Education and Diaspora Minister Naftali…
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Community Pittsburgh Doesn’t Need More Guns — We Need Less White Supremacy
When I heard about the shooting at Tree of Life synagogue, the first thought that ran through my mind was, “I wonder if I know the attacker.” Growing up in a small town outside of Pittsburgh, I was often the only Jew that any of my classmates had met. I began to receive death threats…
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News Anger Over Pittsburgh Bloodbath — And Trump — Could Tip Midterms To Democrats
Just days after the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history, a political war is brewing over whether President Trump is in part responsible for the rampage in Pittsburgh — and whether voters will hold him accountable at the polls next Tuesday. Progressives and Jewish Democratics insist that Trump created an atmosphere that led to the…
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Opinion American Jews: Stop Politicizing The Pittsburgh Massacre. Sincerely, Your Israeli Brother
On Saturday, a man entered a synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered 11 Jews. It was a horrific, heinous crime. Sadly, rather than bringing Jews closer together, it seems to be only dividing us apart. In the past, after terror attacks in Israel, I have looked at my Instagram feed just after a terror attack in…
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Opinion The Israeli Response To The Pittsburgh Massacre Has Been A Disaster
In the aftermath of the terrorist attack at the Tree of Life shul in Pittsburgh last Shabbat, many Israelis weighed in with messages for American Jews. The responses to the attack ranged from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s sympathetic condolences to Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau’s patronizing insults. But Zionist Union chief Avi Gabbay’s contribution –…
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Opinion What The Pittsburgh Massacre Taught Me About Jews In The Age of Trump
In the wake of the horrific massacre of 11 Jews at prayer this Shabbat, I have found myself wondering what it means to be a Jew in the age of Trump. It was a question that preoccupied me on the day he won the presidential election in 2016, on the strength of a campaign that…
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Community Slain Pittsburgh Doctor Treated My HIV When No One Else Would
My doctor, Jerry Rabinowitz, was among those killed in the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting on October 27, 2018. He took care of me and treated my HIV up until I left Pittsburgh for NYC in 2004. In the old days for HIV patients in Pittsburgh, he was the doctor to go to. Before there was an…
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