My Pittsburgh Synagogue Is Still Grappling With the Fragility of Life
Congregants found their own ways to honor those who had been killed.
I was telling an interviewer from an Israeli radio station of all the things the New Light Congregation had been doing to honor our three congregants who were among the 11 killed in the October 27, 2018, at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. Eleven of our congregants who had always wanted to really work at learning to read Hebrew had finally begun to do so. Others were learning the special notes that guide readers in chanting the prophetic readings that are sung at each Sabbath and holiday service.
My 15-year-old niece,
