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Wednesday, May 8, 2019
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Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Pittsburgh federation head lights Independence Day torch
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh President Jeff Finkelstein lights a torch at Israel’s 71st Independence Day ceremony in honor of the 11 members of his congregation murdered at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue earlier this year, when a gunman opened fire during Shabbat morning services, in the largest anti-Semitic attack in American history.
“I am here representing those who lost their lives because of their Judaism,” Finkelstein says at the ceremony.
“I wish I didn’t have it. I wish I was never given it,” he told The Times of Israel on Tuesday in Jerusalem.
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