(JTA) — The pastor of the mother of the suspected gunman in the Pittsburgh synagogue attack said she is “hurting for the Jewish community.” The woman, identified as Barbara, is “really saddened,” Pastor Mark Schollaert of First Baptist Church in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Wednesday evening. The woman lives near the church with…
Anti-Semitism isn’t new — and it isn’t dead. There are still two million fewer Jews alive today than there were in 1939. Jews represent less than 2% of the U.S. population and less than 0.2% of the world’s population. Yet, despite our small numbers, Jews are victims of more reported hate crimes than any other…
A Hasidic newspaper left faces of the female victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre out of a front page spread on the tragedy. On the cover of its November 2 edition, the weekly Yiddish-language tabloid Di Tzeitung ran photos of the eight men slaughtered last Saturday at Tree of Life congregation in Pittsburgh. Underneath, in…
Nimrod Eisenberg is fond of big, red, bulbous stick-on noses; neckties wide as pillowcases and making funny faces: He is a medical clown, a Tel Aviv native whose Israeli organization, the Dream Doctors Project, has helped heal children traumatized by natural disasters in Nepal, Haiti and Uganda. Now he’s in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of…
Time Magazine used its iconic cover space to pay tribute to Pittsburgh, where 11 people at prayer were killed in a synagogue over the weekend. Artist Edel Rodriguez chose to represent the tragedy with the Jewish symbol of a tree of life, for the Tree of Life Congregation itself but also because its roots “run…
A crowdfunding campaign formed by two Muslim groups has raised more than $180,000 for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, which killed 11. Muslim-American non-profits Celebrate Mercy and MPower Change were behind the campaign, “Muslims Unite For Pittsburgh Synagogue.” It is also in partnership with the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh. The campaign reached its…
‘I’m a strong supporter of people’s First Amendment rights to speak, whether it is speech I agree with or disagree with,” said Pennsylvania attorney general Josh Shapiro in the aftermath of the antisemitic massacre in Pittsburgh. He continued, “What is not tolerable in this country and what is not constitutional in this country is when…
The gunman who killed 11 at prayer in a Pittsburgh synagogue, allegedly yelling, “All Jews must die,” pleaded not guilty on Thursday. Robert Bowers walked into the courtroom in downtown Pittsburgh at about 10 a.m., wearing a red jumpsuit and bandage on his upper left arm, Forward staff writer Ari Feldman reported from the scene….
אַן איניציאַטיװ צו אָנערקענען בערלינס אַמאָליקע „ייִדישע גאַס“ װעקט אױף דעם טרױם פֿון ייִדיש װי אַן אָפֿיציעלע מינאָריטעט־שפּראַך
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