How Pittsburgh's Jewish Community Is Coping 1 Week After Anti-Semitic Attack

Nov 05, 2018, 11:57 AM

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Aviva Lubowski does not usually attend weekly Shabbat services at her local synagogue in Pittsburgh.

But one week after 11 people were killed at the Tree of Life temple, the mother to two young girls felt she had to seek community and show her daughters that they can still pray without fear.

"There's no way I wouldn't be here," says Lubowski, a lifelong resident of Squirrel Hill, the Pittsburgh neighborhood where the shooting occurred. It is home to at least half the city's Jewish population.