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Under his rocket-ship comforter, my kindergartener coped with learning bad...
Compelling personal stories told by the people living them. My 5-year-old son was angry and shouting and clingy all last week. Every night from Monday onward, he called me to come into his bed to...
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Evil is the elegy for the quiet village of Squirrel Hill
Editor’s Note: As journalists, we spend a lot of time talking with officials and community members and distilling it into stories that explore important issues of our time. But we realize that...
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From Holocaust survivor to Jewish millennials, three generations of a...
Avi Baran Munro has lived nearly half her life in Squirrel Hill. Along with her husband, Paul, she’s raised four children there, just blocks away from the Tree of Life synagogue. Her parents, Holocaust...
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Pushing past cold fingers and the occasional breeze that would flap her sheet music, Monique Mead stood outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill to grieve with others. To her music stand...
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Two Pittsburgh-area mass shooters attended the same high school. Experts say...
FBI studies of mass shooters in the United States have found some commonalities among attackers when it comes to gender, race, age, marital status and state of mind. But there’s another common, and...
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The Tree of Life shooting devastated all of Pittsburgh. I can’t help but ask:...
Compelling personal stories told by the people living them. In the aftermath of the Tree of Life tragedy, where 11 Jewish worshippers were killed by a white supremacist terrorist, the world heard from...
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Treating trauma and society’s ‘collective illness’: Mental health experts...
Mindy Corporon didn’t want to celebrate Thanksgiving in 2014. She’d managed to avoid the usual intimate family gatherings on the holiday by serving meals to people at a local church, alongside her...
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Tree of Life trauma victims may find allies in neighborhoods experiencing...
In the days following the Tree of Life synagogue shooting on Oct. 27, house cleaner Cathy Turner-Welsh reached out to the Jewish families she works for in Squirrel Hill. “Cathy, keep us strong,” some...
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The historic roots of anti-Semitism and how they play out today
In the aftermath of the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue, Jews and non-Jews alike expressed shock at the violent explosion of anti-Semitic violence. Descriptions of the shooting as “unbelievable”...
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How some Pittsburgh-area faith leaders have addressed security concerns since...
On Oct. 27, 2018, the Pittsburgh-area faith community experienced its worst nightmare. A Jewish place of worship in the heart of Pittsburgh became the target of a hate crime. The mass shooting...
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