{"id":315845,"date":"2026-10-28T05:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315845\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T05:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T05:32:09","slug":"commemoration-ceremony-marks-eight-years-since-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315845\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration ceremony marks eight years since Pittsburgh synagogue shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jordan<\/a>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n

A commemoration ceremony inside the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill marked eight years since the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting took the lives of 11 people and changed the lives of countless others. <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, family members lit 11 candles for the 11 innocent congregants of Dor Hadash, New Light, and Tree of Life who were killed on Oct. 27, 2018: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax and Irving Younger.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were beloved family and congregants to many here tonight. Neighbors to others, healers to some, and friendly faces in the store or on the streets to most of us,\u201d said Maggie Feinstein, the executive director of the 10.27 Healing Partnership. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy brothers Cecil and David were two truly special souls. Although they lived with special needs, they possessed something that many of us spend a lifetime trying to find. The purest hearts filled with kindness, warmth, and beautiful sincerity,\u201d said Michele Rosenthal.<\/p>\n

The event brought a room full of people together for a night of song, prayer, and reflection. <\/p>\n

During the ceremony, the survivors stood shoulder to shoulder, as they have done for the last eight years. They are forever connected by more than what they experienced inside the Tree of Life Synagogue. <\/p>\n

\u201cMost of us are a part of REACH,\u201d survivor Audrey Glickman told Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 Reporter Jordan Cioppa. \u201cRemember, Educate, and Combat Hate- REACH. And we talk with students and other groups who want us to come and tell what it was like, what our experience was of 10.27.\u201d<\/p>\n

REACH is part of the 10.27 Healing Partnership, an organization that was formed in the aftermath of the shooting to offer support and resources to those who were impacted. <\/p>\n

Audrey Glickman said she is motivated by Oct. 27, 2018, \u201cto keep going.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIn memory of the 11 people that we lost \u2014 do something kind. Do something good,\u201d Glickman said. <\/p>\n

The ceremony concluded with remarks from the keynote speaker, Mark Nordenberg, who served as the chancellor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A commemoration ceremony inside the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill marked eight years since the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-315845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315845","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=315845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}