And they’re the same demographic of the police force killing black ppl.
I mean this is literally a publish FBI statistic but ok…we just had an active shooter training. And they, a bunch of white men in the military and police force, told us to our faces that white men make up over 93% of the active shooter cases in this country, ever. Not even just recently. Like literally forever.
Just goes to show you that America never really had a “gun” problem but a problem with White America itself.
Don’t call the victims of the Pittsburgh shooting martyrs.
Don’t say they’re in heaven. Don’t force Christian terms and imagery on them. They were ALL Jewish. Don’t call them saints. They were Jewish people who didn’t ask to be murdered by a Nazi.
Even if they had been Christian, being randomly shot by some evil fucker doesn’t make you a saint or a martyr…
Don’t call the victims of the Pittsburgh shooting martyrs.
Don’t say they’re in heaven. Don’t force Christian terms and imagery on them. They were ALL Jewish. Don’t call them saints. They were Jewish people who didn’t ask to be murdered by a Nazi.
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“Goy friend: You okay?
Me: No. I am not. Eleven of my tribesman are dead, having been murdered while praying to our God. Not just praying to our God, but killed in front of the Torah which we believe to the literal word of God. We treat the scrolls as if they were kings. We adorn them with crowns and breastplates. A bris was reportedly in progress when the shooting occurred. Eight days birth we conducted a bris. That’s this how we welcome a baby into the community and how we mark him with the sign of the covenant, a ritual that goes back roughly 3,000 years. It was such a Jewish place and time and it was desecrated with hate and violence.
Tonight, I am keenly aware that there are roughly 3 times as many people in the the US’s far right than there are Jewish Americans. The ADL said today was the worst act of violence against Jews in our country’s history. A Jewish friend of mine reminds me that this was not just antisemitism, but this was an anti-American attack. We were the first country to be founded with a specific belief in a secular democracy free of organized religion’s influence with a guarantee of religious freedom for all of its citizens. Not long after the ratification of our Constitution, President Washington sent a now famous letter of good will to the Jews of Providence, RI. (The irony of course being that Jews at the time did not have equal rights under state laws).
Two years after POTUS called Nazis “very fine people,” eleven Jews are dead. Many of friends are shocked, I am not. My grandpa taught me to always expect Jews to be at the receiving end of hate, anger, xenophobia and violence. This is our lot in life. This is why Jews to be at the receiving end of hate, anger, xenophobia and violence. This is our lot in life. This is why Jews must always stand up and speak up. Jews can not afford to forget that we will always be viewed as outsiders by nationalists and nativists.
Today was the natural and logical conclusion of Trump’s embrace of the deplorable. I listened to the President blame the victims saying we should have been armed. Tomorrow, I am going to hear another NRA idiot talk about how if Jews of Europe had been armed my kinsmen would have survived the Shoah. POTUS and later his son called for capital punishment despite that being against the tenets of the victims’ faith.
At nearly the same time I saw members of Britain’s House of Lords blame Benjamin Netanyahu, Likud, and Israel for the violence in Pittsburgh and rise in antisemitism. The left wing of Twitter has had so many horrendous takes that I can’t even talk about it. My leftist friends think today is a good day to debate Israel, it’s not.
Meanwhile CNN is saying nothing of value and Fox News is being particularly vile tonight. I am tired of being used as someone else’s political prop.
I was just on the streets of Philadelphia, people are celebrating Halloween as if nothing happened. Outside of my little bubble the world is still spinning. I am choking back tears. I am reading prayers, psalms and listening to music. I am trying to find comfort and solace. I am embracing my community via the internet. Meanwhile I can hear from my windows the drunken laughter and merriment of Philadelphia’s youth having a good time.
No. I am not okay. My community was attacked. My friends are angry, sad, and afraid. As for me, I am heartbroken. I am trying an failing to reconcile my faith in humanity, the absurdity of this world, and my sorrow regarding today’s events.
Also, idk where this came from. I never fancied myself much of a writer and I certainly didn’t meant to write this much. That is a lot of words.“]
Eleven people were killed on Saturday when a gunman entered Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue and opened fire on the congregants. The victims ranged in age from 54 to 97; eight were men, three were women. Two of them were brothers, and two were a married couple.
Chuck Diamond was a rabbi at Tree of Life until about a year ago, and he remains a member of the community, living just around the corner from the synagogue. He knew many of the victims.
“These are wonderful people, good souls, who were just coming to synagogue as the usually did,” he told NPR on Sunday. “Synagogue was just getting started and mostly elderly people who come there are there at the beginning, and you could count on them every week for coming. … It’s such a crime that their lives were taken from us.”
The names of the victims were released on Sunday morning by the Allegheny County Office of the Medical Examiner. Here are some of their stories, as we learn them.
Rose Mallinger, 97, of Squirrel Hill, was the oldest of the victims.
Diamond told NPR that Rose “was in her 90s, but she was one of the younger ones among us, I have to tell you, in terms of her spirit. Rose was wonderful.”
Daniel Stein, 71, lived in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. He is the former president of the New Light Congregation, a Conservative synagogue that held services at Tree of Life.
He was remembered for his kindness.
“He was always willing to help anybody,” his nephew Steven Halle told TribLIVE, formerly the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “He was somebody that everybody liked, very dry sense of humor and recently had a grandson who loved him.”
Melvin Wax, 88, also of Squirrel Hill, was a remembered as a pillar of the New Light Congregation.
“He was such a kind, kind person,” his friend and fellow congregant Myron Snider told The Associated Press. “When my daughters were younger, they would go to him, and he would help them with their federal income tax every year. Never charged them.”
“He and I used to, at the end of services, try to tell a joke or two to each other. Most of the time they were clean jokes. Most of the time. I won’t say all the time. But most of the time.”
Snider said Wax was a bit hard of hearing, and unfailingly attended Friday, Saturday, and Sunday services, filling in at nearly every role if someone didn’t show up.
“Just a sweet, sweet guy,” he said.
Jerry Rabinowitz, 66, of Edgewood Borough, was a family doctor.
He practiced in a “small, cozy office in Pittsburgh’s Bloomfield neighborhood,” TribLIVE reporter Ben Schmitt wrote in a personal remembrance. Rabinowitz was his father’s doctor, and his own.
Schmitt recalled how his father became ill on a trip to India, and called back to Rabinowitz in Pittsburgh for advice. The doctor called his father every day for the rest of his trip to check in on his health.
“I felt like I was in such competent, caring hands,” Schmitt’s father said. “Such a kind and gentle man.”
Rabinowitz also was the personal physician to former Allegheny County Deputy District Attorney Lawrence Claus, who released a statement on Sunday remembering him.
“Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz … was truly a trusted confidant and healer who could always be counted upon to provide sage advice whenever he was consulted on medical matters, usually providing that advice with a touch of genuine humor,” said Claus, according to CBS affiliate KDKA. “He had a truly uplifting demeanor, and as a practicing physician he was among the very best.”
Cecil Rosenthal, 59, and David Rosenthal, 54, were brothers who shared an apartment in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood.
Raye Coffey, a close friend and former neighbor of the Rosenthals’ parents, toldTribLIVE that the Rosenthals spent a lot of time in her house when they were younger. She said the brothers faced mental challenges and were fixtures at Tree of Life, where Cecil was a greeter.
“Cecil was always a big brother. He was very warm and very loving. Whenever he would see us, he would always say, ‘Hi, Coffeys!’ ”
“David was quieter,” she said. “But both were … to die like this is horrendous.”
ACHIEVA, an organization that works with people with disabilities said that the brothers were well-respected members of its community. Chris Schopf, who runs the group’s residential programs, said the brothers never missed a Saturday at Tree of Life.
“If they were here they would tell you that is where they were supposed to be,” Schopf said in a statement. “Cecil’s laugh was infectious. David was so kind and had such a gentle spirit. Together, they looked out for one another. They were inseparable. Most of all, they were kind, good people with a strong faith and respect for everyone around.”
Bernice Simon, 84, and Sylvan Simon, 86, of Wilkinsburg were remembered by neighbors as sweet, kind, and generous.
They were married at the Tree of Life synagogue in December 1956, according to TribLIVE.
“A loving couple and they’ve been together forever,” longtime friend and neighbor Michael Stepaniak told the news site. “I hope they didn’t suffer much and I miss them terribly.”
Joyce Fienberg, 75, lived in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood, and grew up in Toronto. She had two sons and was remembered as a proud grandmother.
“[She was] the most amazing and giving person,” her brother, Bob Libman, told the CBC.
Fienberg was a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh’s Learning Research and Development Center for more than 25 years.
In a statement on Sunday, the center called her “a cherished friend” and “an engaging, elegant, and warm person.”
Gaea Leinhardt, professor emerita at Pitt, called Fienberg her best friend and told The Washington Post that she had a way of putting teachers at ease when she visited their classrooms.
“She was very intellectual,” Leinhardt said. “But also people would just always open up to her in a very easy way. She was an ideal observer.”
Her husband, internationally celebrated statistician Stephen Fienberg, died in 2016.
Leinhardt told the Post that Fienberg had been especially involved at Tree of Life since her husband’s death. “I just can’t say how terribly sad I am that this person isn’t in the world anymore.”
Richard Gottfried, 65, of Ross Township, shared a dentistry practice with his wife.
The two met as dental students at the University of Pittsburgh, the Post reports, and they volunteered with Catholic Charities’ dental clinic. He was said to be an avid runner and had been going to services at Tree of Life more often recently.
Irving Younger, 69, ran a real estate business in Squirrel Hill for many years, and was also a youth football and baseball coach.
Tina Prizner, who lived next door to Younger in the Mt. Washington neighborhood, remembered him as “the most wonderful dad and grandpa” and as a devoted member of his congregation.
“He went every day. He was an usher at his synagogue, and he never missed a day,” she told TribLIVE. “He was a beautiful person, a beautiful soul.”
A reminder, the president did not merely call himself a nationalist. He posited himself a nationalist as opposed to a globalist, which is a well worn antisemitic canard. In context, nationalism here is not a love for country, it is a statement of white ethnonationalism.
hey, in the wake of Squirrel Hill please remember that this isn’t just about gun control, but about antisemitism as well. gun control is important, but it’s not the reason this tragedy has happened. antisemitism has been on the rise in the united states for years, and no amount of gun control debate will stop that. take an active part in combating antisemitism when you see it, both in yourself and in others. keep an eye open, please, to prevent this from ever happening again
My mother called me to say “so, it’s starting again”.
My partner has expressed the fear that no one wants us to remain alive.
If you use this to talk about gun control and don’t address the fact that it is a manifestation of hatred and racism being spurred by open violent racists, then you are missing the point.
Yup. Trump made it a convo about gun control lest he have to denounce white supremacy, but that’s not what this is about. My synagogue has security officers; they are not armed. I’ve been to synagogues that did have armed security. We all know that it wouldn’t have mattered; people would still be dead, by people who want to kill Jews.
Don’t let Trump derail the conversation. Almost two years ago I started making plans and preparatory arrangements to get my six nieces and nephews – all of whom have one Jewish parent, and three of whom might not be allowed to emigrate to Israel because of patrimony bullshit – out of the country if necessary. That is the sort of conversation (white goyische) people need to be paying attention to.
I peddle video games. Two days ago, I had a guy call me and demand to know why he didn’t get a download code when his MOM paid for it earlier in the day. He wouldn’t take “we have an agreement between our company and the developers and I can’t give the code to you yet” as an answer, and called me repeatedly to demand a different answer, to whine about how unfair it is that his friends (who bought it from the developer directly) got it already, and threaten to call corporate on me.
The incident I encountered is small fries compared to this shooting, but it’s all stemming from the same. Fucking. Bullshit. Entitled MEN who don’t know how to fucking chill, who don’t know how to man up and deal with disappointment about anything in life (not being able to get their video game on time, not winning at a game, being turned down by a girl) and who resort to violence when they’re not satisfied. It’s sick and it needs to change.
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