Last weekend, a groundbreaking took place for the new Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh that will have a memorial dedicated to the 11 worshipers who were killed in 2018, simply because they were Jewish.
That same weekend, my family celebrated a significant milestone: my son’s bar mitzvah, a Jewish rite of passage that marks the transition from childhood to adulthood at the age of 13…
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
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https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/antisemitism-violence-danger-security-synagogue-tree-of-life-20240628.html