Even at age 88, Melvin Wax knew how important it was to stand up for others. Wax, who was killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue rampage, was among the first to volunteer to help the shul’s partner, Rodman Street Missionary Baptist Church, when it held a clothing drive to help people in North Carolina affected by…
Correction Appended Rose Mallinger was 97. But she sure didn’t look or act her age. Chuck Diamond, a former rabbi at Tree Of Life, said Mallinger, who was the oldest victim of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, would never miss a service. “She was a synagogue-goer, and not everybody is,” Diamond told the Washington Post. “She’s…
Parishoners at the historic black Emanuel church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Sunday grieved this weekend’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and recalled a 2015 mass shooting at their church, while chiding President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric of hate.” “Words do matter,” Reverend Eric Manning told more than 100 parishioners attending the Sunday service. The church planned a…
In a stunningly apt display of victim-blaming, Donald Trump said on Saturday that the outcome of the anti-Semitic attack on Tree of Life synagogue that left 11 Jews dead would have been different if the Pittsburgh congregants had been armed. Before boarding a flight to several events — one of which being one of his…
(JTA) — Fox Business Network announced that it is pulling a recent broadcast of “Lou Dobbs Tonight” featuring a guest commenting on the “Soros-occupied State Department.” “We condemn the rhetoric by the guest on Lou Dobbs Tonight,” said Gary Schreier, the network’s senior vice president of programming, in a statement. “This episode was a repeat…
I just moved to Pittsburgh. I’ve been checking out the congregations in my new city and went to a shul around the corner from Tree of Life Or L’Simcha a couple of weeks ago. This attack, along with recent attacks against African Americans, immigrants and the transgender community have filled me with anger and grief….
Brothers Cecil and David Rosenthal were named Sunday as two of the victims of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue the day before. Cecil, 59, “was kind of a fixture in our community,” Rabbi Seth Adelson of nearby Congregation Beth Shalom told the Forward. Cecil and his brother David, 54, lived together in…
Dear Jewish Trump supporters, first let me say I’m a proud Jew and a progressive. I’ve watched with horror, but only a modest amount of surprise, as you have embraced the presidency of an unspeakable individual. You have looked aside at evidence of debauchery, ceaseless lying, likely treason and much else. Because, you have claimed,…
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