. Back to Top COUNTERTERRORISM As Shooting Trial Nears, Pittsburgh Grapples With Antisemitism The Washington Post (05/20, Nakamura) reported that the Tree of Life synagogue, site of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, is due for renovations after 414 years of sifting empty. According to the artic

exhumed for a DNA test after federal prosecutors raised questions about paternity during the penalty phase of Bowers' trial for the 2018 massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue. The article added that Bowers, a 50-year-old truck driver from suburban Baldwin, was convicted in June on 63 criminal counts in the EFTA

trial of the man who carried out the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, in which jurors heard the personal accounts of those who were in the Tree of Life synagogue on the October 2018 day it was attacked. The article detailed the experiences of Carol Black, 71, who recalled how she remained hidden eve

rn the “Mamma Loshen’”—the mother tongue. But after two years, my parents switched me to the Hebrew-speaking, more modern Yeshiva, named “Etz Chaim” (the Tree of Life), which I attended through 8" grade, when I shifted to a Yeshiva high school until I finished 12 grade. My Yeshiva education was a decidedly mixed b