Capitol riots
Jewish lives changed by the insurrection include from left to right, Jamie Raskin, Ivanka Trump, Charles Schumer, Kathy Manning, Aaron Mostofsky. (Getty Images/ Design by Grace Yagel)
January 6, 2022, 10:30 am
Jews were on both sides of Jan. 6. Where are they a year later?
Ivanka Trump, Trump’s Jewish daughter, reportedly tried to persuade her father to tell the rioters to stand down. He didn’t listen.
By Ron Kampeas
The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
January 14, 2021, 2:40 pm
No current known threats against Pittsburgh Jewish community
“I cannot stress enough the importance of seeing something and saying something"
By David Rullo
Joined by First Lady Melania Trump and Tree of Life Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers, President Donald Trump places a stone on a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life building. (Photo by Adam Reinherz)
January 12, 2021, 5:32 pm
If we don’t learn from the past, we are doomed to repeat it
"When have Jews ever done well when civil society is under attack — when anti-Semites are leading the charge? Never."
By Howard Rieger
Members of Bend the Arc protested Trump’s visit to Pittsburgh in 2019. (Photo provided by Sara Stock Mayo)
January 12, 2021, 4:56 pm
All of us must join together to counter extremism
"The attack on the Capitol fits a pattern that runs from Charlottesville to Pittsburgh to Poway: Donald Trump has emboldened anti-Semitic extremism."
By Harry Hochheiser
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