At the urging of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Trump made plans to travel to Pittsburgh this week, following the murder of 11 people at a synagogue in the city, the New York Times reported. The Jewish couple reportedly had to ask the president to share an impassioned statement denouncing anti-Semitism, according to the…
Harriet Singer went to synagogue services at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh to mark the anniversary of her father’s death in August. On the way out, she started chatting with a woman named Joyce Fienberg, who told Singer that she was just getting involved in the synagogue again, after years of spending little…
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…
Lynnette Lederman, past president of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, knew many of the victims of the Shabbat-morning shooting by Robert Bowers that killed 11 people and wounded others. She’s heard that President Trump is talking about visiting the city and the synagogue and has one word for him: “Don’t.” “He is the purveyor of…
Dark days, recently. Two of the world’s greatest landmarks went dark to pay homage to the victims of the Pittsburgh shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday. In Paris on Sunday night, the lights of the Eiffel Tower were gradually dimmed and then turned off in honor of the 11 victims of the…
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…
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….
PITTSBURGH – On Sunday night, two letters addressing the terror attack against the Jewish community in Pittsburgh were made public. The letters – one written by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the other by a small group of Jewish activists in Pittsburgh – provided useful glimpses into how Saturday’s tragedy at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue…
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