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Shira Hanau
November 2, 2018, 11:44 am
Church, Synagogue Pray Together For Healing And Reconciliation
New Light Congregation and Rodman Street Baptist church, whose interfaith ties run deep, in emotional reunion.
By Shira Hanau
Chaplain Bob Ossler in front of Tree of Life Congregation this week. “I saw people just sitting there stunned, just frozen — stunned and awed by what happened. I would just listen to people share.” Shira Hanau/JW
November 1, 2018, 10:50 am
Christian Chaplain And Fireman Ministers To Squirrel Hill’s Brokenhearted
For Bob Ossler, Tree of Life Congregation was another Ground Zero of sorts.
By Shira Hanau
An estimated 4000 people gathered to march for solidarity in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood while President Donald Trump was visiting October 30, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The march was in support of the victims of the Tree of Life mass shooting October 27, 2018. Getty Images
October 31, 2018, 1:00 pm
Heavy On Jewish Ritual, Pittsburgh Protests Stress Wider Context For Attack
Was anti-Semitism alone at play in the Tree of Life attack, or was it white nationalism?
By Shira Hanau
The names of the victims are displayed at a memorial on October 28, 2018 outside the Tree of Life synagogue after a shooting there left 11 people dead in Pittsburgh on October 27. Getty Images
October 30, 2018, 5:35 pm
Squirrel Hill Limps Toward Healing
In Pittsburgh, struggling for normalcy amid the grief.
By Shira Hanau
A woman stands at a memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue after the shooting on October 27. Getty Images
October 29, 2018, 3:29 pm
Squirrel Hill Struggles For A Sense Of Normalcy
JCC reopens, WQED plays Ernst Bloch and a community girds to bury its dead.
By Shira Hanau
PITTSBURGH, PA - OCTOBER 28: Rabbi Jeffrey Myers hugs Rabbi Cheryl Klein of Congregation Dor Hadash after she spoke to thousands at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall during a service to honor and mourn the victims of Saturday's mass shooting at the Tree Of Life Synagogue on October 28, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Eleven people were killed and six more were wounded in the mass shooting that police say was fueled by antisemitism. Getty Images
October 28, 2018, 11:06 pm
‘My Holy Place Was Defiled. We Will Rebuild’
Emotional interfaith vigil in Pittsburgh seen as start of a long healing process. ‘The Jewish community will survive, but Squirrel Hill will never be the same.’
By Shira Hanau
October 23, 2018, 6:26 pm
OU Invests In Communal Research
By Shira Hanau
Chelsea Football Club director Eugene Tenenbaum, center, presents World Jewish Congress officials Ronald Lauder, left, and Robert Singer with Chelsea’s iconic blue jersey. Courtesy of WJC
October 3, 2018, 3:28 pm
Kicking Hate Off The Pitch
Ronald Lauder and Chelsea Football Club team up to fight anti-Semitism.
By Shira Hanau
Ann Toback, executive director of the Workmen’s Circle, demonstrates the “shpring” command with her dog, Jesse, at a “Yiddish for Dogs” workshop in New York’s Central Park, Sept. 30, 2018. Dog trainer Miguel Rodriguez, left, and Yiddishist Leyzer Burko, right, led the workshop. JTA
October 3, 2018, 3:20 pm
Yiddish For Dogs –And Reporters
Yips and quips in Central Park at popular Workmen’s Circle event.
By Shira Hanau
Demonstrators at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport protesting the president’s executive order on refugees in January 2017. Scott Olson/Getty Images
September 26, 2018, 6:59 pm
Groups Urging Trump To Raise Cap On Refugees
Administration’s ‘cruel’ move ‘at odds with core American values.’
By Shira Hanau
Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, had said they would testify Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Getty Images
September 20, 2018, 1:11 pm
Fighting Kavanaugh, But Looking Beyond
Liberal groups girding for legal battles ahead in potentially altered Supreme Court.
By Shira Hanau
Millennials on the floor at the Prince George Ballroom. Courtesy of Ohel Ayala
September 13, 2018, 11:50 am
Kol Nidrei In A Red-Sauce Joint?
In a bid to lure millennials, alternative High Holiday services are transforming secular spaces.
By Shira Hanau
Rendering of the Moise Safra Center. Courtesy of Moise Safra Center
September 5, 2018, 12:00 pm
Sephardic Culture Gets A New Manhattan Home
Upper East Side’s Moise Safra Center gives growing Syrian community an anchor.
By Shira Hanau
JTS student Shayna Golkow, left, with millennials as part of the new out-reach program.
August 22, 2018, 10:50 am
Seminary Roundup: News From The City’s Rabbinical Schools
By Shira Hanau and Zohar Reyhanian
The scene at Jewish Currents’ recent relaunch party in Brooklyn. The quarterly magazine is trying to bring together young Jews disillusioned by the mainstream community’s stance on Israel. Rafael Shimunov/Courtesy of Jewish Currents.
August 14, 2018, 11:20 pm
Emerging Jewish Left Posing ‘Challenge To The Center’
Emerging Jewish Left Posing ‘Challenge To The Center’
By Shira Hanau
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