Solidarity with synagogue shooting victims

Luke Malanga

October 30, 2018

Rabbi Abraham Skorka recites “Mourner’s Kaddish,” a traditional Jewish prayer of mourning (Photos by Luke Malanga ’20).

The Institute for Jewish-Catholic Relations held a service of interreligious solidarity in wake of the Oct. 27 synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, Pa. which killed 11 people.

Paul Koenig ’22 stands in the crowd during the service outside the Chapel of Saint Joseph. “I felt anger because although I was not affected at all, the fact that this is still happening, it pisses you off,” Koenig said.

St. Joe’s students, staff, faculty and administrators, as well as community members, gathered next to the sculpture “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time,” which depicts Christian-Jewish friendship, to honor the victims and stand for religious tolerance.

A crowd gathers to mourn for the victims of the Pittsburgh, Pa. synagogue attack.

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