On Friday afternoon, the community laid Rose Mallinger, the oldest victim of Saturday’s massacre, to rest. That means the city’s procession of funerals ended with just enough time to let the community prepare for the first Sabbath after the shooting. Friday evening, a number of special services are planned throughout the city, in addition to…
(JTA) — Rose Mallinger, the oldest victim of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, was remembered as a loving and sharp-witted woman who was a fixture in the Jewish community. Hundreds of people attended Mallinger’s funeral on Friday at the Rodef Shalom synagogue. Mallinger, 97, had been a member for more than 60 years at Tree of…
President Trump said Republicans have suffered ahead of the midterm elections in the wake of the recent mail-bomb threat and the mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue, which left 11 dead, the Washington Post reported. Continuing on his ongoing rally tour, Trump ended his speech in Columbia, Missouri, by encouraging people to vote. He touted…
Two Ivy League universities got called out about their statements addressing the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, as they failed to mention the tragedy was an act of anti-Semitism. The leaders of Columbia University and Dartmouth College shared vague statements with their students earlier this week regarding the shooting, where 11 people were killed…
The course of history occasionally brings a front page that proves impossible to forget. The Chicago Tribune’s premature, incorrect declaration “Dewey Defeats Truman” on November 3, 1948; The New York Times’s “U.S. Attacked” headline on September 12, 2001; the ubiquitous “Nixon Resigns” headlines on August 9, 1974. For many, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s front page of…
“We are all still standing,” said Rabbi James Gibson Tuesday morning. We spoke by phone as he prepared for the first of the funerals for victims of Saturday’s horrific shooting in Pittsburgh. Gibson is the senior rabbi at Temple Sinai, a Reform congregation in Pittsburgh’s Jewish enclave of Squirrel Hill. His shul is less than…
When President Trump claimed that the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh could have been prevented if there had been “protection” inside, reactions in the Jewish community were split. Many liberal Jews — including the family of a man injured in the massacre — felt he was blaming the synagogue for the…
(JTA) — Rep. Steve King refused to answer a voter’s question at a public forum about similarities between his worldview and that of the alleged killer of 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue. The exchange, in which King, R-Iowa, brought up his support for Israel to discredit the legitimacy of the question, occurred on Thursday…
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