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  • A still from ‘Murray Avenue: A Community in Transition,’ 1983
    A still from ‘Murray Avenue: A Community in Transition,’ 1983
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    The Butcher, the Baker, and the Newspaper Seller

    A lost documentary captures the old Jewish shopping district of Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill

    byMark Oppenheimer
  • A person holds a sign that reads, 'Stronger Than Hate,' at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach vigil for the victims in Pittsburgh.
    A person holds a sign that reads, 'Stronger Than Hate,' at the Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach vigil for the victims in Pittsburgh.
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    The Squirrel Hill Diaspora

    Jewish Pittsburghers living around the world struggle to process the synagogue attack while far from the city they love

    byShira Telushkin
  • Two protesters hug during a march for solidarity while President Donald Trump was visiting in Pittsburgh on Oct. 30, 2018. The march was in support of the victims of the Tree of Life mass shooting on Oct. 27, 2018.
    Two protesters hug during a march for solidarity while President Donald Trump was visiting in Pittsburgh on Oct. 30, 2018. The march was in support of the victims of the Tree of Life mass shooting on Oct. 27, 2018.
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    American Jewry Must Double Down on Coalition Building

    Seeking human connection and solidarity, within and without the Jewish community, in the wake of Pittsburgh

    byNathan Rubin
  • Pallbearers carry a casket after a funeral following the Tree of Life congregation mass shooting, Oct. 30, 2018, in Pittsburgh.
    Pallbearers carry a casket after a funeral following the Tree of Life congregation mass shooting, Oct. 30, 2018, in Pittsburgh.
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    Burying the Victims of the Pittsburgh Massacre

    Through funerals and protests, stories and memories about the lives of the people killed rise through the chaos in Squirrel Hill

    byArmin Rosen
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    In a Tragedy Always Look for the Helpers

    A rabbi rushes to Pittsburgh looking for ways to help and finds that he is one of many

    byAvram Mlotek
  • Caskets are carried outside Rodef Shalom Congregation where the funeral for Tree of Life mass shooting victims Cecil Rosenthal and his brother David Rosenthal was held Oct. 30, 2018 in Pittsburgh.
    Caskets are carried outside Rodef Shalom Congregation where the funeral for Tree of Life mass shooting victims Cecil Rosenthal and his brother David Rosenthal was held Oct. 30, 2018 in Pittsburgh.
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    The Funeral of David and Cecil Rosenthal

    The brothers, victims of the horrific attack in Pittsburgh, weren’t just the greeters at Tree of Life, they were ‘the righteous people of this generation—and now everybody knows’

    byArmin Rosen
  • Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill, 1965
    Murray Avenue in Squirrel Hill, 1965
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    Squirrel Hill Taught Me About Community

    A moving remembrance of growing up as one of the few African-Americans in Pittsburgh’s ‘shtetl’ neighborhood, where every Shabbat is a special day, and every day can be Shabbat

    byG. Marcus Cole
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