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Co-presidents of New Light Congregation, Stephen Cohen and Barbara Caplan, visit a memorial in the New Light Cemetery on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, in Shaler Township, Pa., honoring the congregants they lost during the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre over four years ago. Jury selection is scheduled to begin on Monday, April 24, for the suspect accused of invading the Tree of Life synagogue building on that Sabbath morning and murdering 11 worshippers from three congregations. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

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Faith lifted Pittsburgh Jews in long wait for massacre trial
By PETER SMITH - Associated Press
Sat,04/22/23-8:09AM , 90 Reads
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three Jewish congregations, resolute in their defiance of the hatred that tried to destroy them, are still waiting for justice.

But united in their horror and grief, they haven’t been standing still as the criminal case for the massacre that changed everything has crawled through the federal court system.
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Jonny Clark, program manager for public theology at Corrmeela, an organisation that has worked for decades toward reconciliation in Northern Ireland, visits the peace walls in west Belfast, Northern Ireland, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023. Twenty-five years ago, the Good Friday Agreement halted much of the violence of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Today, grassroots faith leaders are trying to build on that opportunity. They're working toward reconciliation in a land where religion was often part of the problem. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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Grassroots faith leaders navigate a Northern Ireland in flux
By PETER SMITH - Associated Press
Tue,04/04/23-1:23AM , 63 Reads
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Teenagers from Catholic and Protestant youth groups lit candles on a Belfast street in memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, then listened solemnly to a warning about the dangers of Northern Ireland’s own infamous religious bigotries.
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Jonny Clark, program manager for public theology at Corrmeela, an organisation that has worked for decades toward reconciliation in Northern Ireland, visits the peace walls in west Belfast, Northern Ireland, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023. Twenty-five years ago, the Good Friday Agreement halted much of the violence of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. Today, grassroots faith leaders are trying to build on that opportunity. They're working toward reconciliation in a land where religion was often part of the problem. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)

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Grassroots faith leaders navigate a Northern Ireland in flux
By PETER SMITH - Associated Press
Tue,04/04/23-1:22AM , 101 Reads
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Teenagers from Catholic and Protestant youth groups lit candles on a Belfast street in memory of those who perished in the Holocaust, then listened solemnly to a warning about the dangers of Northern Ireland's own infamous religious bigotries.
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An image of the U.S. flag is projected on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City in honor of President Joe Biden's visit to Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Several U.S. Jewish leaders are sounding alarms about what they see as a threat to Israel’s democracy posed by its new government, the Likud party led by Benjamin Netanyahu who took office in December 2022, fearing it will erode the independence of its judiciary and legal protections for minority groups. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)

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Israel's rightward shift is straining its ties with US Jews
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Thu,02/23/23-10:07AM , 127 Reads
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