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Twenty Things that Caught My Eye about the Bloodshed at the Tree of Life Synagogue This Weekend
God rest the souls of:
Joyce Fienberg, 75
Richard Gottfried, 65
Rose Mallinger, 97
Jerry Rabinowitz, 66
Cecil Rosenthal, 59
David Rosenthal, 54
Bernice Simon, 84
Sylvan Simon, 86
Daniel Stein, 71
Melvin Wax, 88
Irving Younger, 69
Over the weekend, I posted this . . . it remains my image — a Jewish mother weeping for the innocent blood of sons and daughters of God shed.
1. In the Wall Street Journal, by Lou Weiss, a Pittsburgh carpet salesman: Amalek Comes to Pittsburgh:Eleven Jews were murdered Saturday in their synagogue. I knew five of them.
2. Tree of Life Synagogue Victims Remembered as Guardians of Their Faith
3. Washington Post: The lives lost in the Pittsburgh
synagogue shooting
4. Dispatch from Squirrel Hill: Dread in a peaceful place
5. Brothers killed in synagogue shooting were ‘inseparable’
6. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Brothers killed in synagogue attack had ‘a love for life and for those around them’
7. BuzzFeed: A Doctor Who Died in the Pittsburgh Shooting Is Being Remembered as a Hero to Patients During the AIDS Crisis
8. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers on ABC: “When American citizens cannot freely and safely worship in their house of worship and celebrate the Sabbath, it concerns me because it challenges the safety and security of all Americans in any house of worship.”
9.
Here’s a story about my fourth great uncle who was one of the founders of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. He was devoted to interfaith relations. His close friend, a Presbyterian minister, spoke at his funeral in 1894. pic.twitter.com/rc34D0ALgo
— AJ Jacobs (@ajjacobs) October 28, 2018
10. Emma Green: A Broken Jewish Community
11. John Podhoretz: What I learned as an American Jew after the Pittsburgh synagogue attack
12. Russell Moore: “A Bible with its Jewishness wrung out of it is no Bible. And a Christ with his Jewishness obscured is no Christ at all.”
13.
In solidarity with our Jewish friends, Catholics should today recall the teaching of John Paul II: “With Judaism therefore we have a relationship which we do not have with any other religion. You are our dearly beloved brothers and, in a certain way, you are our elder brothers.”
— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) October 27, 2018
14.
The shedding of innocent, Israelite blood is a affront to not only our shared humanity, but to what we Christians believe God has accomplished through the Blood of Christ.
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) October 29, 2018
15.
Leader of Islamic Center of Pittsburgh announces Muslim community has raised more than $70,000 for synagogue attack victims and their families.
“We just want to know what you need … If it’s people outside your next service protecting you, let us know. We’ll be there.” pic.twitter.com/D2UyNzBFHx
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 29, 2018
16.
The municipal building in Tel Aviv, Israel lights up in the colors of the American flag in solidarity with the victims of the deadly Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting that killed at least 11 people. https://t.co/kUz3QjWLqPpic.twitter.com/6Uhyy85Ski
— ABC News (@ABC) October 27, 2018
17. Ben Shapiro: Why We Cling To The Tree Of Life
18.
Rabbi. Cop. Praying in DC after massacre at the Tree of Life. @olearybill pic.twitter.com/B21csBTIpj
— Michelle Boorstein (@mboorstein) October 29, 2018
19.
In the wake of yesterday’s attack at Tree of Life, today I joined Rabbi @JoePotasnik, @NYCMayor de Blasio, Public Advocate @TishJames, @TheRevAl, Rabbi Michael Miller, Imam Al-Hajj Talib &many more religious &civic leaders, together in solidarity at Temple Emanu-El in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/9wPZ7nYNFB
— Cardinal Dolan (@CardinalDolan) October 28, 2018
20.
In honor of the Pittsburgh dead, I want to play one more quintessentially Jewish lament before shutting down for the night, Mischa Elman’s version of “Eili, Eili”: https://t.co/D1BC4Ck5IC
— (((Terry Teachout))) (@terryteachout) October 28, 2018