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A man places flowers outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on October 27, 2020, the second anniversary of the shooting at the synagogue, that killed 11 worshippers. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)
(Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle via JTA) Daniel Libeskind, the internationally renowned architect who designed the World Trade Master Plan in New York following 9/11, has been chosen as the lead architect to reimagine the site of the Tree of Life synagogue building in Pittsburgh.
The renovation is part of the congregation’s REMEMBER. REBUILD. RENEW. campaign to commemorate the events of Oct. 27, 2018, when a white supremacist gunman murdered 11 worshippers during Shabbat at the three congregations housed in the building: Tree of Life, Dor Hadash and New Light. It was the most violent antisemitic attack in US history.
this is such a sweet guy, and a good soul. danny stein, his son and daughter i grew up. i played basketball with joe since i was a kid. and i think you can talk to anybody and ask about that family, and they were just the nicest people. joe and lee are two of the nicest people you ll ever meet. so i m very typical of a squirrel hill kid that grew up born and raised in this area that knows everybody. and everybody knows you. it s not uncommon to just take a walk, and for even a socially introverted kind of person, stop to say hi or be said hi to. that s what i heard. it was normalcy. what do you make of the idea that you know live in a community that was targeted by somebody because of your faith? i mean, it s disgusting.