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Pittsburgh: 1 year later
The Temple Shalom committee that oversaw the creation of the memorial, from left, Dinah Fox, Lee Dornfeld, Howard Goodkin, Donna Chalef, Jeffrey Newman, Stu Bauer, and Shirley Bauer; committee members not pictured are Elliot Chalef, Sarita Felder, Jill Goodkin, and Michael Schreiber. Photos by Johanna Ginsberg
January 2, 2020, 11:24 am
Temple to dedicate memorial to Pittsburgh shooting victims
By Johanna R Ginsberg
Sam Aboudara, with Melissa Hiller, assistant director of the Center for Loving Kindness at the JCC of Greater Pittsburgh.
November 13, 2019, 12:40 pm
One year after Pittsburgh attack, acts of kindness remain powerful beyond words
By Sam Aboudara
Matthew Chinman, 49, of Squirrel Hill, hugs a fellow community member during a vigil held to remember those who died earlier in the day during a shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on October 27, 2018. - The gunman who killed 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh will face federal charges that carry the death penalty, the US Justice Department said. (Photo by Dustin Franz / AFP) (Photo credit should read DUSTIN FRANZ/AFP/Getty Images)
October 24, 2019, 12:43 pm
Pittsburgh tragedy demands that we embrace life — and one another
By NJJN Editors
Tammy Hepps, Kate Rothstein and her daughter, Simone Rothstein, 16, pray from a prayerbook a block away from the site of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood on October 27, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Getty Images
October 24, 2019, 12:19 pm
‘Pause with Pittsburgh’ to mark first anniversary of attack
By NJJN Staff
Some Jews on the left blame President Trump’s rhetoric, in part, for inspiring the Tree of Life shooter. During his visit to Pittsburgh after the attack, above, protestors turned their backs on his motorcade. Getty Images
October 17, 2019, 11:59 am
Politics coloring a tribal divide
Since the attacks in Charlottesville and Pittsburgh, the issue of anti-Semitism has been weaponized by the left and the right for partisan advantage
By Shira Hanau
The makeshift memorial outside of Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last year. Getty Images
October 17, 2019, 11:42 am
Where anti-Semitism has ‘never left’
The Pittsburgh attack shocked most Jews, but those outside of the big cities had seen it coming
By Shira Hanau
A message of hope: Part of a children’s art project placed around Tree of Life meant as a way to beautify the site. Shira Hanau/J
October 17, 2019, 11:36 am
Where the pain is still fresh, and the loss is still local
‘Pittsburgh’ has become a metaphor for all Jews’ rising anxiety in 2019. But in Squirrel Hill, the meaning of the last year is still being shaped.
By Shira Hanau
A year after the Pittsburgh Tree of Life attack, teens, like these at Temple Shalom in Succasunna, have various views about the rise in anti-Semitism. Photo by Johanna Ginsberg
October 17, 2019, 11:04 am
One year after Tree of Life attack, teens reflect on anti-Semitism
For some, ‘a wakeup call,’ for others, ‘just the way life is’
By Johanna R Ginsberg
Rabbi Avi Friedman
October 17, 2019, 10:58 am
Summit rabbi, formerly at Tree of Life, mulls changes in synagogue life
More focus on security, value of ‘friends and allies’ in interfaith community
By Rabbi Avi Friedman
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