Ground was broken on Sunday for a new building at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, which will house a memorial and museum to combat antisemitism at the site of the 2018 hate crime shooting.

Mr. Libeskind, who in 2003 won the competition to design the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 attacks, had been in New York when the attack at Tree of Life occurred.

But on the morning of Oct. 27, 2018, while I was still dawdling over breakfast and the newspaper, I heard the door open only an hour after he had left the house to go to the Tree of Life synagogue.

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