Pittsburgh suspect’s hatred of Jews, HIAS part of larger anti-immigrant surge
RNS No one knows yet why a gunman singled out the Tree of Life Congregation, out of all of Pittsburgh’s synagogues, as the site for a virulently anti-Semitic shooting spree. But Robert Bowers, the man accused of gunning down 11 congregants in a rampage Saturday in the city’s Squirrel Hill neighbourhood, was known to hate Jews […]
ESSAY: WHY PITTSBURGH MATTERS
Rabbi JEFFREY SALKIN, in an article for his column first published on Religion News Service, says the attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh was not only an attack on Jews or Judaism but an attack “on all that we hold sacred”…
Updated: Pope Francis condemns “inhuman” attack on Pittsburgh synagogue
Last updated 12pm Vatican CityRNS Pope Francis on Sunday decried the deadly Pittsburgh synagogue attack and prayed that God would help the world “extinguish the eruptions of hatred that are emerging in our societies”. A gunman, 46-year-old Robert Bowers, on Saturday stormed the Tree of Life synagogue in the historic Jewish neighborhood of Squirrel Hill […]