Tree Of Life Synagogue Breaks New Ground

June 24, 2024 4:50 am

PITTSBURGH — (WPXI)-The Pittsburgh community came together on Sunday to go down the path toward healing and transformation after the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting. People packed into a tent on the grounds of the Tree of Life Synagogue. Members of the congregation, politicians, faith leaders, survivors and their families gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony. The site will now become a new building and stand as a memorial. The new building will house a sanctuary for the Tree of Life congregation, an education center dedicated to combating bigotry and a museum dedicated exclusively to chronicling the long history of antisemitism in America, which will be the first of its kind in the country. Victims families, survivors and leaders joined the stage to break glass — a tradition at Jewish wedding ceremonies to remember the pain of the past and the broken world amid great joy.