Last year on October 27, 11 worshipers were fatally shot and several others wounded inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The effects of the deadly hate crime have rippled throughout the country since.
"The boulders on the sidewalk, the scanners, the security guards... We have become a fortress," he told the Temple Emanu-El congregation. Last year on October 27, eleven worshipers were fatally shot and several others wounded inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The effects of the deadly hate crime have rippled throughout the country since.
counterterrorism officer, far left, takes up station at Temple Emanu-El in October 2018, as religious institutions boost security in the aftermath of Pittsburgh's Synagogue shooting.Robbins says many local synagogues his Atlanta federation works with have also now added armed guards and metal detectors. Communities have gone into a somewhat safety"overdrive," he says. But security isn't cheap, he says."And you don't take it away once you added it.
statistics show, compared to 93 the same period last year."Today, certainly, we're very much feeling the threat of anti-Semitic violence," says Rabbi Davidson, who leads the New York synagogue."The hate manifestos that perpetrators have left behind have been laced with anti-immigrant language. They're out for anybody that's different.
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