Seven years after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the city is being called to unite again. With both Oct. 27 and the yahrzeit of those killed approaching, the community is encouraged to remember, volunteer and learn.
Listed online at 1027healingpartnership.org, various in-person and digital activities are intended to inspire reflection, communal betterment and personal meaning, according to 10.27 Healing Partnership Director Maggie Feinstein.
On Oct. 27, 2018, 11 congregants from three congregations — Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life — were murdered during Shabbat services in the Tree of Life building: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Dan Stein, Irving Younger and Melvin Wax. Since that heinous crime, community members have routinely undertaken meaningful pursuits to remember and honor lives lost.
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