Chas Danner on what to know about the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. The victims of the Tree of Life synagogue massacre are martyrs. Holocaust survivor cheated death at Pittsburgh synagogue massacre by 4 minutes. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting comes amid a yearslong rise in anti-Semitism. HIAS, the Jewish agency criticized by the shooting suspect, has a history of aiding refugees. The Pittsburgh gunman embodied the cruelty that has sometimes stained the United States — but the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, which he reviled, has long represented America at its most compassionate. Sam Stein: “As a Jewish child in 1990s America, anti-Semitism to me was a theory, not a reality. But today, I wonder if it will be the same for my young son”. Why anti-Semitism flourishes whenever hatred thrives.
A brief history of anti-Semitic violence in America: The synagogue attack in Pittsburgh may be the deadliest attack against Jews in American history — but it’s nowhere near the first. What is domestic tranquility? It is not being gunned down in your house of worship. At least 10 people were killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting Saturday morning — must this nation worship only behind bars and guards?
