American Jewry Mourns

JUDOKA Opinion. Tradition. DEDICATES #WE- ON WIN TO ARE-ALL- JUDAISM PITTSBURGH JEWS AND ISLAM VICTIMS A2. A10. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2018 | 24 CHESHVAN 5779 VOL. XLVI NO. 2379 Pittsburgh’s American Jewish Schools Seek Healing Jewry After Massacre BY SHIRI MOSHE & Mourns BEN COHEN On Monday afternoon, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto stood outside the independent Jewish Community Day School (CDS) deep in conversation with a small gathering of staff and parents. In the two days since gunman Robert Bowers massacred 11 worshippers and wounded six others at the Tree of Life synagogue, Peduto told the group, he had seen “a real outpouring of love that’s out there.” “It’s all directions,” Peduto remarked. “It’s the support of the Jewish community from every community, this is everyone pouring in.” Funeral services for brothers Cecil and David Rosenthal, victims of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, Oct. 30, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Cathal McNaughton. A thank you card to police from students at the Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh. Photo: Shiri Moshe / Th e Algemeiner. BY SHIRI MOSHE & in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Tree of Life synagogue — as “the Th e Rosenthals’ funeral took sweetest human beings you could For the four Jewish day schools serving this city’s BEN COHEN place at the historic Rodef Shalom ever meet.” community of just under 50,000, Monday was the fi rst Temple — a congregation whose In his eulogy, Rabbi Myers opportunity for teachers and students to sit together and try Th e fi rst of the funerals of the roots go back to 1847, the decade — who courageously evacuated and make sense of last Shabbat’s atrocity. Mayor Peduto’s 11 victims of Saturday’s antisemitic when the fi rst groups of Jews began several congregants from the point about the unity of Pittsburgh’s diverse communities in massacre in Pittsburgh took place arriving in this city. Local dignitaries sanctuary as Bowers opened the face of a hate crime that marked “the darkest day” in the on Tuesday afternoon, as almost and uniformed representatives fi re with an assault rifl e — city’s history — as well as the deadliest antisemitic attack on 2,000 mourners bade farewell to of the emergency services joined remembered the devotion with a Jewish community in the United States — was reinforced David and Cecil Rosenthal — the the Jewish community in paying which David and Cecil, both of in their classrooms. tribute to two individuals described whom were intellectually disabled, two brothers murdered during Continued on Page A4 gunman Robert Bowers’ shooting by Rabbi Jeff rey Myers — who served the congregation. spree at the Tree of Life Synagogue knew the brothers well from the Continued on Page A2 How to ShabbatCalendar Parshat CHAYEY SARAH Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 5:33pm | Shabbat Ends: 6:32pm פרשת חיי שרה Respond to Pittsburgh P.O.B. 208 East 51st St, Suite 185 New York, NY 10022 page A8 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2018 Th e Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2018 Opinion. Special Editorial: #WeAreAllJews Is America Any Different When It Comes to Earlier this year, our colleagues at the and asking our political and communal three leading Jewish newspapers in the U.K. leaders to do the same. published the same front-page headline and The gunman who invaded a sanctuary Antisemitism? joint editorial voicing concern over rising on Shabbat did not distinguish among his anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labor party. victims. To him, they were all Jews. Today we have found a mournful We are all Jews. Let this horrific massacre Wiesel said, “It often happens like this. Jewish occasion to follow in their footsteps. be a moment of redemption as well as blood is spilled and, temporarily, sympathy For many Jews, the United States has grieving. Let us argue with each other as Hillel DOVID EFUNE for Jews grows; the world warms to them.” The long held a unique role in our collective argued with Shammai — with civility. Let us NEW YORK attack, he feared, would be seen as a matter of imagination. It has been an unprecedented acknowledge our common humanity with unique concern to the Jewish community. He land of promise, of refuge, of freedom, other Americans who have been subject to was right. The outrage soon diminished. opportunity and of safety. unconscionable violence, too. The matter was addressed again in 2015 But after the horrific attack this past Jewish media has a long and proud history in On November 9th, communities around by then-French Prime Minister Manuel Valls Shabbat at the Tree of Life Synagogue in America, and we pledge to continue our mission the world will mark the 80th anniversary soon after another radical Islamist killed four Pittsburgh in which 11 of our brothers and to inform, reflect and bind our communities, even of Kristallnacht, the infamous antisemitic shoppers at a kosher supermarket in Paris. sisters were brutally murdered, we can’t help more necessary in this painful time. pogrom that symbolized the acceleration In an address to the French Parliament but be shaken and concerned for the America Jane Eisner, Editor-in-Chief, The Forward of Hitler’s murderous campaign against the just days after the attack, Valls thundered we have come to know and love. Dovid Efune, Editor-in-Chief and CEO, Jewish people. The decimation of European from the podium, “We haven’t shown enough We therefore join together to unequivocally The Algemeiner Jewry was soon to follow. outrage.” Enumerating a number of recent condemn this brutal act of anti-Semitism and Ami Eden, CEO and Executive Editor, 70 On that night, in 1938, my grandmother, antisemitic attacks in France, Valls noted that all deadly acts of hate. We also condemn the Faces Media then only 9 years old, peered out of the the incidents “did not produce the national climate of hate that has been building for some Nadine Epstein, Editor-in-Chief and window of her apartment on Vienna’s outrage that our Jewish compatriots expected.” time now, especially on college campuses and CEO, Moment Magazine Lilienbrunngasse. On the street below she “When the Jews of France are attacked, on social media, where the veneer of anonymity Sue Fishkoff, Editor, J.The Jewish News of witnessed the devastation wrought on the France is attacked, the conscience of humanity is has allowed anti-Semitic cesspools to flourish, Northern California neighboring synagogue. A Torah scroll, attacked,” he continued. “Let us never forget that.” and from irresponsible political leaders who Lisa Hostein, Executive Editor, Hadassah hallowed by Jewish worshipers, lay muddied In contrast, the general American engage in hateful speech and who are abetted Magazine on the ground. It was a scene that remains response to the bloodshed at the Tree of Life by the silence of others. Gabe Kahn, Editor, New Jersey Jewish etched in her memory and she recounts it Synagogue in Pittsburgh signals a widespread, As journalists, we hold a variety of News with crystal clarity to this day. natural and genuine sense of deep solidarity opinions about politics in this country and Janet Perez, Managing Editor, Jewish For American Jews, the commemoration with US Jewry. in Israel; the American Jewish community is News of Greater Phoenix this year will bear added tragic significance. President Trump rightly referred to the diverse, and those differences are reflected on Brett R. Rhyne, Editor, The Jewish In what is being described as the attack as “an assault on all of us,” and flags across the pages of its media. Advocate, Boston “deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the country are flying at half mast. Americans In coming together now, we are not Gary Rosenblatt, Editor and Publisher, the history of the United States,” a synagogue of all stripes attended vigils in the thousands erasing those differences, but rising above Jewish Week of New York in the leafy, peaceful neighborhood of Squirrel and donated funds to the families of the victims. them, to issue a call for solidarity and respect, Joshua Runyan, Senior Editorial Director, Religious denominations from across the Washington Jewish Week Hill, Pittsburgh, was targeted during morning spectrum rushed to voice their support. Cultural Liz Spikol, Editorial Director, Baltimore prayer services on Saturday. The white figures and sports teams too joined the fray, Jewish Times supremacist attacker killed 11 worshipers adding their prominent voices to a growing David Suissa, President, Tribe Media/ and wounded four others. FBI Special Agent chorus of concerned fellow citizens. Jewish Journal in Charge Robert Jones described the crime Jonathan S. Tobin, Editor-in-Chief, scene as the “most horrific” he’d seen in 22 Jewish News Syndicate years with the bureau. For a community that still lives with the collective trauma of a tormented past, the Continued from Page A1 attack presents a paradigm shift. In the past, Mourns the targeting of Jews for murder was largely the “No matter how early we arrived at the thought to be centered on specific geographic Algemeiner Journal synagogue, Cecil and David would be there regions. For many American Jews such attacks already,” Rabbi Myers said. Having only been were of a historic nature, or, more recently, (USPS 927800) is published weekly mostly confined to European countries with Viral logo created by Tim Hindes in the (except for the week of Passover appointed as Tree of Life’s rabbi last year, Myers aftermath of the shooting at the Tree of Life said he had been struck by “the beauty with restive radical Islamist populations.

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