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Lily and Andrew Goldson of Temple Shalom in Succasunna at a makeshift memorial at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life building. Photos by Michelle Goldson
May 22, 2019, 10:49 am
‘Sobering’ visit to Tree of Life
Temple Shalom embraces activism, displays friendship to Pittsburgh community
By Johanna R Ginsberg
Local chef and “Chopped” champion Meny Vaknin, at left, interviewed Michael Solomonov before a crowd of 400 at a Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest fund-raiser on March 28. (Photos by Johanna Ginsberg)
April 3, 2019, 12:01 pm
Chefs entertain at federation fund-raiser
Ties to Tree of Life synagogue provided somber moments
By Johanna R Ginsberg
A mourner carrying a temporary memorial marker for Joyce Fienberg, who was killed in the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, Oct. 28, 2018. JTA
April 1, 2019, 11:51 am
A Pesach for Pittsburgh
By Steve Lipman
Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Getty Images
January 30, 2019, 11:09 am
Increasing threat from extremists on the right
Reaction to two new reports suggest fault lines on assessing danger from both sides
By Steve Lipman
Sign of the times: Members of the Community Security Service force outside a synagogue. Courtesy of CSS
January 23, 2019, 11:42 am
Alarmed, and armed
Three months after Pittsburgh, security concerns testing synagogues. ‘Even rabbis are carrying’
By Johanna R Ginsberg and Steve Lipman
The year in hate: Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, site of the shooting rampage in October that left 11 dead. Getty Images
December 26, 2018, 1:55 pm
Stronger than hate?
The Pittsburgh tragedy defined 2018 and tested the Jewish community (and the country) as perhaps never before
By Robert Goldblum
Former FBI agent and active shooter expert Jin Kim told those gathered at a federation-sponsored security session that “every individual has it in them to be their own first responder.” Photos courtesy Jewish Federation in the Heart of NJ
December 10, 2018, 11:17 am
FBI active shooter expert advises community on shoring up security
Federation sponsors sessions in wake of Pittsburgh synagogue attack
By Debra Rubin
Rabbi Shira Stern, co-leader of disaster spiritual care for the American Red Cross New Jersey, worked with the Pittsburgh Jewish community. Photos courtesy Rabbi Donald Weber
November 21, 2018, 11:44 am
NJ rabbi helps Pittsburgh community pick up the pieces
After tragedy, pastoral counselor hopes to make parents, children, and others feel ‘safe’ again
By Debra Rubin
At the Creating a Caring Community Together conference are, from left, Father Joe Ciccone, Rabbi Ziona Zelazo, and Jocelyn Gilman. Photo by Johanna Ginsberg
November 21, 2018, 11:39 am
What to do when trauma hits home
Chaplaincy committee offers guidance on disaster response
By Johanna R Ginsberg
Tammy Hepps, Kate Rothstein and her daughter, Simone Rothstein, 16, pray from a prayerbook a block away from the site of a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood on October 27, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
November 14, 2018, 2:18 pm
Grappling with Pittsburgh from across the world…
By Rabbi David Levy
November 12, 2018, 12:24 pm
Vigils honor victims of Tree of Life shooting
By NJJN Staff
A Rutgers University police car is parked outside Rutgers Chabad on College Avenue, New Brunswick.
November 12, 2018, 11:06 am
After Pittsburgh, a shift from mourning to proactive measures
Community balances need for security, and comfort
By Debra Rubin
Francine Klagsbrun
November 7, 2018, 12:04 pm
Cheshvan is the cruelest month
By Francine Klagsbrun
Joined in grief: Rabbis Jeffrey Myers, left, Cheryl Klein and Jonathan Perlman, the spiritual leaders of the three congregations housed at Tree of Life, at an interfaith vigil the day after the shootings.
November 7, 2018, 10:54 am
Songs in the key of life and death
The rhythms, both religious and musical, of a wrenching week in Squirrel Hill
By Shira Hanau
An estimated 4000 people gathered to march for solidarity in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood while President Donald Trump was visiting October 30, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The march was in support of the victims of the Tree of Life mass shooting October 27, 2018. Getty Images
November 1, 2018, 2:44 pm
Heavy on Jewish ritual, Pittsburgh protests stress wider context for attack
Was anti-Semitism alone at play in the Tree of Life attack, or was it white nationalism?
By Shira Hanau
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