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How American Jewish groups are reacting to the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter’s sentence

Groups stressed in their comments that the memory of the victims should remain paramount. Many also expressed gratitude that the shooter’s devastating crime was treated with the gravity it deserved.

Pittsburgh synagogue shooter is sentenced to death

Robert Bowers’ sentence makes him the most prominent person to be condemned to death for antisemitic crimes since Adolf Eichmann.

Pittsburgh synagogue shooting jurors are deliberating the death penalty for the 2nd day

The more extended deliberations in this phase of the trial could reflect disagreement within the jury.

Jan Schakowsky joins Israeli protesters in Chicago area in a sign of the movement’s inroads among Democrats

Mats Hummel at the San Diego Jewish Academy

German football team joins San Diego Jewish school in commemorating children murdered in the Holocaust

Suspect in Memphis Jewish school shooting was present when police shot and killed his father in 2003

JFK documents reveal assassin’s CIA monitor was Reuben Efron, a Jewish spy who loved Midrash

Jury in Pittsburgh shooter case asks to see gunman’s weapons

A classroom at Margolin Hebrew Academy, pictured in 2021. (Screenshot from YouTube)

Jewish man shot by police after attempting attack on Memphis Jewish day school

Pittsburgh synagogue shooter is dismayed not to have inspired more attacks on Jews, psychiatrist testifies

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