Mourners crowded into Pittsburgh synagogues and joined street processions Tuesday at the first funerals for victims of the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent US history — as US President Donald Trump arrived in the grieving city for a controversial visit.
The funeral for brothers Cecil and David Rosenthal, both in their 50s, was the first in honour of the 11 people gunned down during prayers at the Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday in an apparent hate crime.
Services for 66-year-old doctor Jerry Rabinowitz and 71-year-old Daniel Stein followed in Pittsburgh, where scores of residents protested Trump’s visit.
The president’s trip to Pennsylvania comes amid a mounting row over whether his fierce rhetoric at campaign rallies and on Twitter has helped stoke extremism ahead of…
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