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Community I’m A Jew Who Just Moved To Pittsburgh — And I’m Outraged
I just moved to Pittsburgh. I’ve been checking out the congregations in my new city and went to a shul around the corner from Tree of Life Or L’Simcha a couple of weeks ago. This attack, along with recent attacks against African Americans, immigrants and the transgender community have filled me with anger and grief….
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Community Dear Jewish Trump Supporters: You Can’t Have It Both Ways After Synagogue Bloodbath
Dear Jewish Trump supporters, first let me say I’m a proud Jew and a progressive. I’ve watched with horror, but only a modest amount of surprise, as you have embraced the presidency of an unspeakable individual. You have looked aside at evidence of debauchery, ceaseless lying, likely treason and much else. Because, you have claimed,…
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Community Stop Politicising Pittsburgh
Etz Chaim: The Tree of Life. How painfully ironic. The metaphoric expression “Tree of Life” ( Etz Chaim in Hebrew) is a mystical symbol within the Kabbala of esoteric Judaism used to describe the path to God. Yesterday’s unredeemable act of evil within the walls of The Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburg is physically,…
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News On Morning After, Tears And A Crowded Minyan In Pittsburgh Synagogue
There are three Conservative Jewish congregations in Pittsburgh’s heavily Jewish Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Two of the congregations, both based in the building of the Tree of Life synagogue, were attacked Saturday by an anti-Semitic gunman who killed eleven people. It is unclear when they’ll be allowed to return to their building, which is still an…
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Community Today I Am Weeping For Pittsburgh — But We Must Stand Strong Together
Sometimes, maybe it is the same for you, I come to shul on Shabbat and just look around. I am trying to understand the stories of all the people who have come to pray. There are the wide-eyed newcomers, so polite. There are the insiders, and the ones who came for the bar mitzvah, unmistakable…
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Community Remembering A Jewish Childhood In Squirrel Hill, Unblemished By Hate
I lived in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh. I lived in Squirrel Hill. I remember the park, Frick Park- with a blue slide etched into the edge of a hill- one we used to ride down on wax paper and cardboard boxes- the relic of childhood that I rode down years later to relive the few moments…
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Fast Forward Hate-Filled Pittsburgh Synagogue Killer Acted Alone: FBI
The suspected gunman who killed 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the most deadly attack ever on the Jewish community in the United States likely acted alone, officials said on Sunday. The shooter stormed the building during a Saturday morning service, fatally shooting 11 mostly elderly people and wounding six others including four police…
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Opinion Pittsburgh Synagogue Murder Spree Latest In 4 Decades Of Organized Anti-Semitic Attacks
The Saturday morning massacre at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Congregation is unique in a certain sense. The murder of 11 Pittsburgh synagogue congregants by a white supremacist gunman is by far the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history. But while it’s the worst, it’s not the first, nor the second nor even the 10th case…
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