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Opinion Pittsburgh Bloodbath Exposes Hypocrisy Of Netanyahu’s Attacks On Liberal Jews
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his weekly cabinet meeting with a moment of silence and said that “Israel stands together with the Jewish community in Pittsburgh, and with all Jewish communities in the United States, and with the American people.” Netanyahu then talked about anti-Semitism in America, Western Europe, and the battle…
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Community Hundreds Mourn Those Killed In Pittsburgh During A Moving NYC Havdalah Service
Mir veln zey iberlebn, their signs proclaimed — we will outlive them. The night of the terrible shooting at Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, hundreds gathered in Union Square in New York City to mourn. They conducted a Havdalah service at sunset, which marks the transition between Shabbat and the rest of the week….
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Life Don’t Avoid Talking To Your Kids About The Pittsburgh Shooting
‘For these things I weep, my eyes flow with tears,” reads the Book of Lamentations, and my mind plays on continual loop all the tragic details we now know about the shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, likely the deadliest attack on Jews in the history of America. Yet the lament continues with the…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: Pittsburgh Synagogue Rabbi Tells What Happened
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, who was presiding over the service at the Pittsburgh synagogue Tree of Life on Saturday morning when the gunman murdered 11 praying congregants, told the Today show the story of the tragedy. The footage is moving. “I heard him execute my congregants,” he said. “This is my home and it’s been desecrated,”…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: Pittsburgh Synagogue Rabbi Calls For A Stop To ‘Words Of Hate’
In a vigil on Sunday night, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers who was presiding over the service at the Pittsburgh synagogue Tree of Life on Saturday when the gunman murdered praying congregants called on leaders to “stop the words of hate.”
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Fast Forward 2,500 Mourn Victims Of Pittsburgh’s ‘Darkest Day’ Synagogue Rampage
Some 2,500 people gathered on Sunday at a memorial service for the 11 Jewish worshipers slain in their Pittsburgh synagogue during Shabbat services, a mass murder the mayor called the city’s “darkest hour” while exhorting mourners to “defeat hate with love.” Several speakers addressing an overflow crowd at the University of Pittsburgh’s Soldiers and Sailors…
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Fast Forward 97-Year-Old Rose Mallinger Was ‘So Full Of Life’ And Attended Synagogue Every Week
Correction Appended Rose Mallinger was 97. But she sure didn’t look or act her age. Chuck Diamond, a former rabbi at Tree Of Life, said Mallinger, who was the oldest victim of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, would never miss a service. “She was a synagogue-goer, and not everybody is,” Diamond told the Washington Post. “She’s…
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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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