Close-knit, diverse Jewish hub numbed by slaughter

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Jeffery Finkelstein, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh addresses members of the media on October 28, 2018 during a press conference in Pittsburgh, after eleven people were shot and six injured during a shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh on October 27, 2018. – A man suspected of bursting into a Pittsburgh synagogue during a baby-naming ceremony and gunning down 11 people has been charged with murder, in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in recent US history. The suspect — identified as a 46-year-old Robert Bowers — reportedly yelled "All Jews must die" as he sprayed bullets into the Tree of Life synagogue during Sabbath services on Saturday before exchanging fire with police, in an attack that also wounded six people….



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