Tree of Life Synagogue
Among their celebratory posts on Telegram is a rap video honoring accused perpetrator Robert Bowers and threatening Migration Policy Institute co-founder Kathleen Newland.
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers has led a movement to discourage vitriolic, menacing speech online—what he terms “H speech”—that he views as having been a contributing factor in the atrocity.
Andrea Wedner, who lost her mother in the 2018 shooting, focuses on the future and what she can do to help heal the Pittsburgh Jewish community.
Pittsburgh resident Judah Samet lived through the Holocaust and the assault on his synagogue, the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
$5.4 million donated to those most affected by Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
The victims’ families will receive more than $3 million; those who were in the building during the shooting and survived will get $215,162; and those who were on the premises will be given $23,905.
These tragedies teach “how hate can proliferate and erode societies” and serve as a “reminder that the United States must advance global efforts to ensure that barbarism and mass murder never occur again.”
Demolition dredges up items in buried time capsule linked to Pittsburgh Jewish history
It contains old newspapers, bank deposit books, letters and envelopes, a green Heinz pickle pin, a Jewish prayer calendar and more.
With the Jewish holidays, the two-year anniversary and the U.S. presidential election next fall, a trial might not begin until early 2021.
The collaboration is the first of its kind in the U.S. Senate, serving as a corollary to the House of Representative’s Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism.
“The unintended consequences of this horror are so incredibly positive and uplifting, something no one could have anticipated. … Still, it is easy to lose hope, and we seem to be drowning in an epidemic of mass violence with no end in sight,” Rabbi Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.
“Since that day, our community has resolved to stay stronger than hate and anti-Semitism,” said Steelers’ president Art Rooney II.
“What happened after the attack is testimony to the resilience of the Jewish community, as well as the community at large. We remember and repair together,” said Pittsburgh community leader and chair of United Israel Appeal Cindy Shapira.
