(April 11, 2019 \/ JNS)\n <\/p>\n
Pennsylvania lawmakers on Wednesday honored the memory of the 11 Jewish worshippers who were killed in October 2018 at the Tree of Life*Or L\u2019Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n
The joint session in the state\u2019s House of Representatives in the capital, Harrisburg, was attended by nearly two-dozen relatives of the victims.<\/p>\n
The opening prayer was conducted by Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of the New Light Congregation, which was one of the three services taking place at the synagogue during the shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis moment of American history and this ravaging Sabbath massacre in my hometown tells us that all is not well in our republic,\u201d said Rabbi Cheryl Klein. \u201cHate is emboldened, and white supremacists are somehow mainstreamed. This diseased American moment was anti-Semitism in our face. It is ugly, unacceptable, and its condemnation needs to be met with tireless strength.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe pray that we are not guilty of inaction. We pray that we are not guilty of complacency,\u201d she added. \u201cWe pray that we are not guilty of allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by politics.\u201d<\/p>\n
State Rep. Dan Frankel, a Democrat whose district includes the synagogue, said: \u201cThe assault on these three congregations was an act of unimaginable evil. But it has been met with unfathomable bravery and love within our community, and far beyond it. Literally hundreds of people acted heroically, starting within seconds of the first gunshot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(April 11, 2019 \/ JNS) Pennsylvania lawmakers on Wednesday honored the memory of the 11 Jewish worshippers who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-252672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}