PITTSBURGH — A truck driver who spewed hatred of Jews was convicted Friday of storming a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find on a Sabbath morning, killing 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror for which he could be sentenced to die. The guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion after Robert Bowers’ lawyers conceded at the trial’s …
PITTSBURGH — Three Jewish congregations, resolute in their defiance of the hatred that tried to destroy them, are still waiting for justice. “We don’t want to be silenced as Jews,” said Rich Weinberg, chair of the social action committee for Dor Hadash. We will not be intimidated.” That was evident even in subtle details of a Passover service held earlier …
Co-presidents of New Light Congregation, Stephen Cohen and Barbara Caplan, visit a memorial in the New Light Cemetery on April 19 in Shaler Township, Pa., honoring the congregants they lost during the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre over four years ago. “We don’t want to be silenced as Jews,” said Rich Weinberg, chair of the social action committee for Dor Hadash. We …
