After years of mourning for the lost lives, the desecrated temple will undergo extensive reconstruction to create a place to help eliminate antisemitism and tell a story of redemption
T of L Inc. will exist to eliminate antisemitism, and Tree of Life will tell a story of redemption, not a massacre, and how a community forged peace from a terrible loss. Studio Libeskind, a New York architecture firm led by world-class architect Daniel Libeskind, has drawn the blueprints, in counsel with Pittsburgh architect Daniel Rothschild, for a groundbreaking this year.
“We knew this as a horrible attack, and, yes, the worst antisemitic attack on U.S. soil,” says Garret. “But the response was broader than that. From Jews, non-Jews, Muslims, Christians, survivors of other shootings. We kept thinking: what can we do with that?” He met with about 160 people in small groups over the next year to share memories. Some missed their home for Shabbat. Others recounted weddings and bar mitzvahs. Rothschild asked them to write a sentence or a word on Post-it Notes. Did they have hope?
Mother Emmanuel AME church in South Carolina held services four days after a gunman shot dead nine people at prayer. Other communities have found themselves unable to return. Parkland, Florida plans to demolish the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building where 17 people died in the 2018 mass shooting. The Pulse nightclub in Florida, where 49 people were shot to death in 2016, remains closed.
Seventy-six-year-old Libeskind—who landed in New York as a 10-year-old immigrant, leaving Poland for Israel then America—has documented trauma and history in magnificent ways in his career. He designed the Jewish Museum of Berlin to reflect the scars of the Holocaust and political times that spiraled into terror. His own family lost 85 relatives in Nazi-occupied Poland.
“It’s about hope,” Libeskind says. “But it has to reflect all that happened, not just the attack. There was a community that quickly came together. Christians, Muslims, it was all about solidarity. It wasn’t just a response of Jews and about Jews…This effort to rebuild is about the power of people to create communities across boundaries.”
Ellen Cohen and her mother, Marcia Stewart, pose for a portrait inside the Tree of Life synagogue. Cohen is helping to lead the effort to raise money for the construction of a new building. The lifelong members have close ties to the congregation. Cohen was married at the synagogue and her four children were given their Hebrew names there. Stewart knew all 11 people killed during the mass shooting.
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