Jewish tradition frequently pictures God’s teachings and scripture, the Torah, as the tree of life – deepening this connection between life and wisdom. Reaching up to God ...

In Jewish Scripture and Jewish thought, the tree of life speaks to fundamental aspects of what it means to be human in the world. In my research as a scholar of the Bible and ancient Judaism, ...

Jurors recently delivered a guilty verdict for the gunman who killed 11 worshippers in Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue—the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Tree of Life has almost ...

February 4, 2019 - Washington, District of Columbia, U.S. - JUDAH SAMET is a member of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh. In October 2018, he survived the horrific shooting that killed 11 ...

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.

On Feb. 21, the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, HBO and the Secure Community Network will host a screening of “A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting” at Ritz Five in Society ...

The Tree of Life shooting brought an end to the centuries of American Jewish life without a mass murder of Jews. As a Squirrel Hill native, I have struggled to figure out what it means to live ...

This Friday marks five years since a gunman entered the Tree of Life-Or L’Simcha synagogue and killed 11 Jewish worshippers during an Oct. 27, 2018, Shabbat service.

Tree of Life and two other Jewish congregations — Congregation Dor Hadash and New Light Congregation — all practiced in the building. The 11 worshippers who died in the 2018 shooting were ...

Since the morning in October 2018 when a gunman killed 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, the somber building complex has been by turns a crime scene, a place of mourning ...