First Person Accounts
of the Squirrel Hill Massacre
October 27, 2018
Compiled and Edited
by Rabbi Erin Hirsh
Dan Leger
Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz z”l
Dr. Jerry
Rabinowitz
Rabbi Anna Boswell-Levy
Michael Kerr
Ellen Leger
Rabbi Jeffry Myers
Barry Werber
Audrey Glickman
Judah Samet
Carol Black
Justin Sypolt
Bruce Carlton
Dr. Jeffrey K Cohen
Ari Mahler, RN
Mayor Bill Peduto #1
Rabbi Doris Dyen, her husband Deane Root, Ruth and Sy Drescher
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pittsburgh-shooting-tree-of-life-members-of-congregation-recount-terror-of-attack/
Sarah Resnick
Richard Parsakian
Karen Nayhouse Morris
Ron Linden
53,000 Signatures in 24 hours.
Richard Parsakian
Richard Parsakian
Joy Katz
Richard Parsakian
Karen Nayhouse Morris
Richard Parsakian
Karen Nayhouse Morris
Lindsay Gorby
Richard Parsakian
Karen Nayhouse Morris
Jocelyn Mayr
Richard Parsakian
Karen Nayhouse Morris
David Michael Slater
Richard Parsakian
Karen Nayhouse Morris
Mayor Bill Peduto #2
I have spent
the last two weeks
trying to understand
why the world hasn’t
stopped.
Why life as normal
just goes on
after the massacre,
the desecration.
And then it is today.
November 9, 2018.
The 80th anniversary
of Kristallnacht.
November 9, 1938.
Another
horrendous
monumental
violent
antisemitic attack
when the world should have stopped.
Corrected course.
But life went on the next day,
business as usual
for the people
of Nazi Germany.
Except for those
for whom it didn’t.
Except for those
for whom
it was
the beginning
of the end.
Especially today,
After 80 years
of teaching
of remembering
our history.
I ask
Why hasn’t the world
stopped?
Why do we let
life as normal go on?
On November 9, 2018
by Rabbi Erin Hirsh
Dan Leger
Project CommUNITY: From Parkland to Pittsburgh, an extraordinary hour-long tv program in which Dan spoke publicly for the first time in January 2019.
You have stood with us. You have sung with us, prayed with us, grieved with us and raised funds for us. Your support has held us up over the past several weeks and affirmed for us the strength of our Jewish and Pittsburgh Communities.
We were attacked because we are Jews. We condemn the white nationalist ideology the perpetrator embraced, a toxic belief system that promotes anti-Semitism and demonizes non-white immigrants, Muslims, the LGBTQIA+ community, and people of color.
We raise our voices to demand an end to hate speech and the othering of any human beings by anyone, including our elected leaders. We raise our voices to demand rational gun laws to help prevent future tragedies.
This tragedy will forever be a part of our story, but it will not define us. We will move forward and rebuild, not only our congregation, but our country.
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to abandon death penalty for Oct. 27 shooter
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