PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
‘The joy you took away will be reclaimed’: Relatives of the 11 synagogue shooting victims confront gunman as he’s sentenced to death
Megan Guza
August 3, 2023

One by one, they filed to the front of the fifth-floor courtroom — a place where most have spent each day for more than two months. They spoke of times before Oct. 27, 2018, when a gunman tore through the Squirrel Hill synagogue where congregations Tree of Life, Dor Hadash and New Light worshipped. They spoke of the times after that. The finding out, the pain, the grief, the trial of Robert Bowers, and his sentence of death returned a day prior by the jury. They spoke of their lost loved ones: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil and David Rosenthal, Bernice and Sylvan Simon, Dan Stein, Melvin Wax, and Irving Younger. READ MORE