Tag: Tree of Life Synagogue
Pittsburgh Jewish community reflects on turbulent year, discusses future plans
Members of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community convened a press conference late last week to talk about the Oct. 27 synagogue massacre almost a year ago and their plans moving forward.
At the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, a...
#ShowUpForShabbat to recall Pittsburgh shooting victims, one year later
An initiative by the American Jewish Committee invites people of all faiths to join Jews in synagogues for Shabbat services on Oct. 25-26 as a show of solidarity timed to the first anniversary of...
Gov. Wolf to carry Tree of Life ‘mezuzah’ to Holocaust memorials in Eastern Europe
When visiting Holocaust memorials in Lithuania and Poland this week, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf will bring along the mezuzah hat was on the office door of Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue...
Justice demands the death penalty for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter
The reaction to the decision of the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue the death penalty for Robert Bowers from the Jewish community was entirely predictable. The man who stands accused of perpetrating the...
Federal prosecutors to seek death penalty for Tree of Life Pittsburgh shooter
Federal prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Robert Bowers, who is accused of killing 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27, 2018, according to a...
Almost one year since deadly shooting, Pittsburgh Jewish community ‘still shaken’
It has been a deadly week in America with the back-to-back shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, which left a combined total of 31 people dead. For the Jewish community, it dredged...
Rabbi speaks of communal strength to Carnegie Mellon graduates in Pittsburgh
Rabbi Shlomo Silverman, director of the campus Chabad center at Carnegie Mellon University and vice chairman of the Council of Religious Advisors at Carnegie Mellon University, delivered the invocation at this year’s commencement ceremony on May...
Yom Hazikaron service in Jerusalem: ‘We are here in the East, but our heart...
The Jewish Agency for Israel held a Yom Hazikaron memorial service in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning for fallen soldiers of Israel, victims of terrorist attacks and Jews murdered in anti-Semitic incidents throughout the world.
The...
Stop debating about which kind of anti-Semitism is worse
American Jews were shaken by the second attack on a synagogue within six months this past weekend. But, as was the case with the aftermath of the shooting in Pittsburgh, the assault on Chabad...
From Pittsburgh to Poway
When a natural or human-made disaster strikes my community, it’s my natural instinct to write about it. That was the case when floods devastated Houston year after year after year, and now again after the shooting at Chabad of Poway,...