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Antisemitism after Pittsburgh

Wayne Koestenbaum’s Poetic Ethics

December 22, 2018 • by David Micah Greenberg

About a month after the murder of eleven at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh -- the worst attack on Jews in the history of this country -- we might pause to reflect on the nature of the continuing threat. The attack itself has only elevated anxiety that Jews ...

In a Tragedy Always Look for the Helpers

A rabbi rushes to Pittsburgh looking for ways to help and finds that he is one of many

November 4, 2018 • by Avram Mlotek

On Saturday night, my family danced the end of Shabbat away with song. It had been a full Shabbat: celebrating an upcoming marriage, a baby just birthed, welcoming guests, Jews and non-Jews who have never experienced the Jewish day of rest, around our table. Isolated from the outside world, our ...

A View from Berlin on the Mass-Shooting at Tree of Life

The anti-semitic and anti-advocate rhetoric surrounding the killings at Etz Chaim, Pittsburgh

November 3, 2018 • by Irit Dekel and Michael Weinman

We got the news of the massacre in Etz Chaim, the “Tree of Life” synagogue in Pittsburgh, while sharing an early dinner at home with friends. We were nine, and -- as it happens -- all Jewish: German, American, and with Israeli origins. The contradictory initial reports shattered the evening ...