Tree of Life Congregation Shooting

‘Laughter through the tears’: The first Shabbat at WU Hillel post-Pittsburgh shooting

Washington University students arrived at Hillel Friday night, less than a week after the fatal shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, just as they would any other Shabbat, excited to join their friends in prayer and a good meal. However, a few things were different.

Jaden Satenstein | Staff Writer

Religious groups, CDI host ceremony responding to Pittsburgh shooting

Students, faculty and administrators gathered outside of Francis Olympic Stadium to show support for the victims of Saturday’s shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, Oct. 30.

| Contributing Reporter

Letter to the Editor

The time to demand more from the Jewish community is not while we are still burying those that were killed. The time to make criticisms over what is being posted on social media is not now.

Jonah Bernstein | Class of 2021

On the Pittsburgh shooting: We can all do better in the face of hate

I recently wrote an article titled “On the Pittsburg shooting: These are not isolated incidents,” which has gained a lot of controversy because of how I phrased my point. I want to clarify some of what I said, as many have perceived what I was saying in a way in which I did not intend.

Tyler Sabloff | Senior Forum Editor

Letter to the Editor

I applaud the authors of these articles for speaking to these truths. Yet, to me, there are a couple of pieces that these Student Life articles got utterly, fundamentally wrong.

Rebecca Shaevitz | Class of 2020

Letter to the Editor

This past Saturday morning, in Hillel’s egalitarian minyan (prayer service), when we returned the Torah scroll to the ark, as we do each week, we chanted together, “[the Torah] is a tree of life for those who hold fast to it.”

Hani Fish-Bieler | Class of 2022

Campus responds to shooting at Pittsburgh synagogue

Chancellor Mark Wrighton released a statement to the Washington University student body in an email later that afternoon. Twenty-two percent of the student body identifies as Jewish, according estimates by Hillel. In his statement, Wrighton directly characterized the attack as one driven by hate.

| Senior News Editor

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