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Jewish Leaders Tell Trump He Is Not Welcome In Pittsburgh

Featured News
Mon, Oct 29th, 2018

Jewish leaders of the Pittsburgh area have told President Donald Trump that he is not welcome in Pittsburgh at this time. They said that until the president denounces white nationalism they cannot willingly accept his presence in their community. The Jewish leaders are members of the Pittsburgh affiliate of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership…

What the gunman didn’t get: In Squirrel Hill, diversity made us strong

Far right/White nationalists, Featured News
Sun, Oct 28th, 2018

By Bill Tarrant (Reuters) – In the 1960s, when I was growing up in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill district, we used to take the trolley up cobble-stoned Murray Avenue heading downtown, passing through a tableau of European-American Jewish life. There were Silverman’s and Rosenbloom’s, the two bakeries where we bought our dark rye bread. There were…