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Pittsburgh synagogue shooter ordered to die by execution, more than 4½ years after he killed 11 in Squirrel Hill

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 … Continue reading

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“How the Pittsburgh massacre brought out the worst in some liberal Jews”

COMMENTARY The Know-Nothing Excommunicators by Seth Mandel November 2018 Perhaps we should call it “Spinoza’s Revenge.” In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish leaders pronounced a cherem—excommunication—on Baruch Spinoza, the Jewish philosopher who contested the Torah’s divine provenance. Spinoza became the founding father … Continue reading

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“Antisemitism is a politics of misdirected blame. Today its most frequent target is the state of Israel”

WALL STREET JOURNAL The Many Faces of Jew-Hatred by Ruth Wisse Oct. 31, 2018 …The most discouraging feature of the anti-Israel brand of anti-Semitism is its penetration of Western societies, including the U.S. That a single shooter wants to kill … Continue reading

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Rabbi David Wolpe: “Calls to excommunicate pro-Trump Jews are not simply wrong. They’re poison”

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‘It’s a very bad day for America’

NEW YORK POST Alleged gunman’s anti-Semitic views revealed in social media posts by Eileen AJ Connelly October 27, 2018 The man authorities believe killed 11 people inside a Pittsburgh synagogue had a history of posting racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic rants — and … Continue reading

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