For instance, hundreds of Jewish gravestones were vandalized in Pennsylvania and Missouri, and antisemitic incidents on university campuses doubled in number. In 2017 there was a 57% rise in antisemitic incidents in the United States, in context of rising hate crimes against other groups, including Muslims and African Americans, as reported by the FBI. A similar rise in online attacks had occurred during the 2016 US election, with the midterms being a "rallying point" for far-right extremists to organize efforts to spread antisemitism online among the populace. The immediate rise in the months of August to October 2018 was attributed to rising tensions associated with advertising for the 2018 U.S. In addition, other antisemitic acts had been committed elsewhere. This 2018 mass shooting took place soon after Columbia University and the Anti-Defamation League independently reported a spike in antisemitic activity online, especially on the popular social networking platforms Instagram and Twitter. However, local rabbinic student Neal Rosenblum was murdered in the neighborhood in 1986 in an antisemitic hate crime. Squirrel Hill has a low crime rate and is not generally regarded as racially tense. The synagogue's main sanctuary has a capacity of 1,250 people. The congregation also rents space to Dor Hadash, a Reconstructionist congregation and New Light, another Conservative congregation. The modern synagogue building, located at the intersection of Wilkins and Shady avenues in Squirrel Hill, was built in 1953. Originally founded as an Orthodox Jewish congregation in 1864 in downtown Pittsburgh, by an early group of Jewish immigrants, Tree of Life merged in 2010 with the recently founded Congregation Or L'Simcha. About 26 percent of the city's Jewish population live in the area. The Squirrel Hill neighborhood is one of the largest predominantly Jewish neighborhoods in the United States and has historically been the center of Pittsburgh's Jewish community. It is located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Carnegie Mellon University and about 5 miles (8.0 km) east of downtown Pittsburgh. The synagogue describes itself as a "traditional, progressive, and egalitarian congregation". Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation is a Conservative Jewish synagogue. He separately faces 36 charges in Pennsylvania state court. On June 16, 2023, he was found guilty on all federal counts, and on August 3, 2023, he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. Screw your optics, I'm going in." He was charged with 63 federal crimes, some of which are capital crimes. I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. Referring to Central American migrant caravans and immigrants, Bowers posted a message on Gab in which he wrote that "HIAS likes to bring invaders in that kill our people. Dor Hadash had participated in HIAS's National Refugee Shabbat the previous week. Bowers had earlier posted antisemitic comments against HIAS (formerly, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) on the online alt-tech social network Gab. The perpetrator, identified as 46-year-old Robert Gregory Bowers, was shot multiple times by police and arrested at the scene. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the United States. The perpetrator killed eleven people and wounded six, including several Holocaust survivors. The congregation, along with New Light Congregation and Congregation Dor Hadash, which also worshipped in the building, was attacked during Shabbat morning services on October 27, 2018. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was an antisemitic terrorist attack that took place at the Tree of Life – Or L'Simcha Congregation synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Colt AR-15 SP1 semi-automatic rifle Īntisemitism, belief in the white genocide conspiracy theory.Mass shooting, mass murder, domestic terrorism, hate crime
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