Jacob Kamaras: As another antisemitic attack makes its way into the news cycle and will likely remain at the forefront of public consciousness for some time, there’s no perfectly worded press statement that can adequately condemn it.
Melanie Phillips: It is a tremendous mistake to assume that antisemitism arises from any political activity or ideology. It is a pathology based on the wish to exterminate the Jewish people—a moral and spiritual sickness unique in human history.
As world Jewry reels following the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, United Hatzalah volunteers from Israel are on their way to the Jewish community in Squirrel Hill to help counsel witnesses and family members of those killed in the attack.