Several Boston-area Jewish groups are organizing a vigil at the Parkman Bandstand at 2 p.m. on Sunday, following today's murder of 11 by an anti-Semite with an AR-15:
We are as devastated as we are horrified. We have reached out to the Pittsburgh Jewish community to express our support. We pray that the families of the victims find comfort during this unimaginably painful time and for the full recovery of the wounded. And we offer our gratitude to the brave first responders in Pittsburgh who risked their lives to prevent further bloodshed.
In our close-knit Jewish communal world, many of us have friends and family in Pittsburgh, and know congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue. These are our brothers and sisters, our friends, our family, and our children. ...
Anti-Semitism and hatred in its many forms are antithetical to our faith and an affront to humanity. For the victims, we will mourn. For the living, we will continue to fight for a better, more just world.
May the memories of those we lost today be a blessing.
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Meanwhile, the Herald blames you for Pittsburgh
By adamg
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 10:44pm
Yes, you, you pusillanimous Clinton supporting, pantsuit wearer, you're as much to blame for a Jew-hating mass murderer as all the rightwing trolls and their Dear Leader with their cute little globalist dog whistles spurring the mentally ill to go on rampages with their AR-15s:
ugh
By anon
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 10:58pm
Shameless.
But we knew that.
I know they've mostly been laid off
By Parkwayne
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 11:11pm
but the rest of the people who work there should quit.
Do you mean the Dear Leader
By anon
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 11:15pm
Do you mean the Dear Leader who is pro-Israel and has a Jewish son-in-law?
Yep
By adamg
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 11:35pm
Dear Leader with his house Jews.
That's classy
By Roman
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 12:24am
Now we know why you let "white bread wop" slide a few months back.
Anyone care to guess uhub policy on referring to those other "house" people by a certain epithet?
The American Jewish community has not as a group internalized a very important lesson: your own safety is first and foremost your own responsibility. Trump was completely right when he said that if there good guys with guns there then this might not have been as bad.
Calling people names and pushing Orwellian inversions (you know he's an anti-Semite because he held a seder at the White House and has been close with Jewa his whole life!) doesn't change facts. And the fact is that every single bad thing ever is Trump's fault in some way in your mind.
I hope you get past your irrational rage and realize that every day is NOT Kimono Day at the art museum.
Three police officers were shot
By Ron Newman
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 12:28am
How many do you think should be needed to keep a synagogue safe?
Honest answer: zero
By Roman
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 1:08am
Any large gathering should contain a percentage of private citizens proficient in the use of deadly force and this fact should be widely publicized as a form of deterrent.
But that's beside the point because in this sad case the number of armed good guys was zero. My reading of the reporting leads me to understand that police were not there guarding the services but arrived after the killing was done.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/us/active-shoot...
Hahaha you’re the funniest
By Sonicyouth
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 2:06am
Hahaha you’re the funniest person on here
"American Jewish Community"
By Pete X
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 12:39am
There is no separate, monolithic "American Jewish Community," you anti-semitic piece of garbage. There are Americans, some who are Jews, some who are Christian, some who are Puerto Rican, some who are black, some who are gay, some who are white, some who are racist a-holes like yourself. But it's people like you and your fellow MAGA stooges who are trying to divide the American community into specific groups to maintain your thin hold on white male privilege.
There were three, count them THREE policemen with guns there who got shot by this single gunman. You think a rabbi packing heat would've stopped this psycho with an assault rifle? You have the unmitigated gall to blame Jews for their own slaughter?!! F you and your effing "kimono day," Roman.
Thank you sir, may I have another?
By Roman
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 1:59am
I don't think you understood what I wrote.
Oh, we understand it very well.
By jmeltzer
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 2:19am
Period.
Roman
By Michael
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 2:53am
Shouldn't you be out putting more stickers on your van
He's going to need ...
By jmeltzer
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 7:54pm
a bigger van.
He didn't pull the trigger
By adamg
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 10:30am
But he set the tone for what happened.
Stochastic Terrorism
By Kaz
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 10:32am
Throw invectives. Assign deadly blame. Stand back and wait.
Kinda like calling for the President
By Roman
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 12:59pm
to be assassinated and settling for one nutter shooting up the Congressional Republican baseball team?
Kinda like calling me all sorts of names, all but accusing me of standing guard over the death camps and having a bomb factory in my basement, and what happens...happens?
Look in the mirror long and hard please.
Someone called you names??? OH THE HORROR!
By lbb
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 8:55am
You start a mudfight on here every damn day, Roman. People who start mudfights shouldn't complain that they get dirty.
Trump confidante and stalwart conservative congressman
By bulgingbuick
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 12:48pm
Steve King said this:
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/413601-steve-ki...
Whatabout that!
House Jews?
By Beanzzz
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 11:14am
Seriously?
You've become exactly what you rail about.
Oh, and nice homophobic slur, Kaz. You're not witty, either.
This used to be a great site.
Used to be.
buh bye then
By Lanny Budd
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 12:16pm
Don't let a packet hit your ass on the way out.
GTFO
By Kaz
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 5:21pm
What homophobic slur? You're as dumb as your comment is useless.
[img]https://media1.tenor.com/images/2584f4bd127686061a...
Maybe it's not a slur per se
By Roman
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 5:35pm
But you did accuse me of wanting to perform sex acts on our president.
You Should Look Up Christian Zionism sometime
By BlackKat
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 1:49am
It's the reason cultists like Mike Pence like to support Israel, so it is around to be destroyed later.
Who is "Robbins" ?
By Ron Newman
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 11:16pm
A columnist there
By adamg
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 11:35pm
His oeuvre.
"A columnist there"...
By anon
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 1:41pm
....who; by the way is Jewish. Convenient, how that wasn't mentioned. I'm sure that it had nothing to do with framing your narrative
Oh, if only I'd known he was MoT ...
By adamg
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 3:24pm
I still would have written the same thing. I haven't read his column, my complaint is with the way the Herald framed it on their front page.
*sound of teeth grinding*
By Lecil
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 11:53pm
So, Adam, what is your policy on salty language? I'm finding my ability to resist sorely tested these days...
That's a good point. It's also on the NRA and the Gun Lobby.
By mplo
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 4:11pm
If guns were more regulated, and not so accessible, and more extensive and intensive background checks were given for prospective buyers, and if Congress would close the loophole that permits illegal gun sales to go on at gun shows, many more lives would be saved, and we wouldn't be constantly having these mass shootings.
Unfortunately, however, as a society and a culture, the United States totally depends upon and revolves around firearms, and it has come home to roost in more ways than one.
Small headline correction
By mg
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 11:13pm
From what you posted, it looks like the vigil is for the dead as well as survivors, to mourn as well as offer what comfort we can. Baruch dayan emet.
Thanks
By adamg
Sat, 10/27/2018 - 11:37pm
Headline changed.
Looks like
By Luke Warm
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 12:40am
The fucking crackpot felt theatened by the line of asylum seekers at the southern border. Thought, for some reason, that "the Jews" were "letting them in." This one is on Trump, too. Republicans are truly the empty core of life
So it's Trump's fault
By Roman
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 1:57am
because it was Trump who blamed the caravan on the Jews? Huh?
Hey, fucknut.
By Kaz
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 8:42am
When is anything Trump's fault for you?
Never?
Then shut the fuck up because we already know you want to lick his orange taint. You add nothing but blind antagonism. Move on. You're not witty. You're not interested in honest debate. You purely exist here to defend the right for insanity and lies to poison the discussion.
Plus
By anon
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 10:22am
Deny that his being both a Jew or a Foreigner will be an issue if he just plays redneck hard enough.
Looks like it's an issue already
By Roman
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 5:35pm
Look no further than above this post for people telling me to be afraid on account of being a Jew and being an immigrant.
'cept it's the left that's leading the race to hell by a mile.
Hey Roman
By boo_urns
Tue, 10/30/2018 - 9:23am
You're in a thread about a vigil for slaughtered Jewish people by a right wing extremist whining about how you don't like liberals. Pretty clear you have no self-awareness or shame.
I don't like Donald Trump either, but
By mplo
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 4:13pm
the hard fact is that our gun culture has been in place since the United States' founding, and we're seeing the net results, in more ways than one, including these mass-shootings. We've been having these mass-shootings well before Donald Trump was elected to the White House.
Hard fact
By anon
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 11:00am
It is also a hard fact that guns used to be for hunting and maintaining farmsteads - tools. Now they are fetish objects designed such that persons with no skill can inflict massive body counts at the touch of a trigger.
Don't conflate the two cultures.
Shooter believed Trump controlled by Jews
By O-FISH-L
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 6:15am
I'm hearing that the shooter believed Trump is "controlled by Jews." So which is it? We have always had and always will have people with psychological problems. To blame Trump is a new low.
No
By Pete X
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 8:59am
A "new low" is someone shooting up a synagogue. Blaming Trump is called "using your eyes and ears." It's Trump and his fellow republicans who keep talking (and tweeting) darkly about "Soros" and other "globalist" money funding all manner of activities the republicans have been using to incite hate. Look up the term "stochastic terrorism."
I just had a delayed epiphany
By Roman
Sun, 10/28/2018 - 9:22pm
"Stochastic terrorism " is a fancy way to claim that correlation is causation. As an argument it is most effective when used by lefties against righties because only lefties can effect a sufficiently smug affect to have any hope of pulling it off.
Word Salad
By Pete X
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 12:21am
You're gonna need to have a better grasp of the english language to "effectively" play your pretend-erudite troll game. I mean, you somehow managed to use effect and affect exactly wrong. Also, as I said before, please F-off you victim-blaming, semi-literate troll.
With dressing
By Roman
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 1:45am
"smug affect" is a valid and meaningful combination of words:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affect_%28psychology%29
Your ardent belief that they won't come for you
By anon
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 10:14am
Keep up the delusion. Your time will come if this continues.
Look up "enabler" in the dictionary. Also, check into what happened to the collaborationist Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto who served as police.
My ardent belief in 2nd amendment security is why they are
By Roman
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 12:09pm
less likely to come for me.
Every they. Anti-Semites, socialists, fascists, "anti" fascists. All of them.
I'm not blind. Quite the opposite. Who's blind and deluded is the dyed-in-the-wool leftist minorities and immigrants and Jews that will see this tragedy and conclude that the appropriate course of action to is to wish real hard and hope that if only the Dems get absolute power then they'll turn the country inside out and get all the sharp objects out of the hands of all the bad men.
That's not how I think. They can come for me. But they best know it'll be the last thing they do. That's what the 2nd amendment is for. And that's why all those able-bodied and willing should be proficient in the use of firearms. Especially people with targets on their backs like ethnic and religious minorities.
Belief?
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 12:22pm
The 2nd Amendment is a law, and the constitution and bill of rights are a body of laws.
This is not a religion. Belief is for religions, laws are for republics.
Belief.
By Roman
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 2:58pm
The 2nd amendment is a law that codifies cultural values into a legally binding agreement between all of us. The belief is in self-defense and a conspicuous check on overreaching governmental power.
Just like the 1st amendment is a law that enshrines the cultural value of free peaceable expression of ideas.
One can believe in these principles. One can also use "belief in the laws" as shorthand for what I just said.
Just like the Pittsburgh cops
By Kaz
Mon, 10/29/2018 - 1:07pm
They came for Bowers. He injured 3 of them. You're probably cool with that though. I mean, after he killed all the Jews, he was just defending himself from the cops with his 2nd Amendment Rights. That's what it's there for.
Or when someone breaks the law, do they lose the 2nd Amendment Right to execute government officials who try to take their guns? You're okay with that, right?
So, when they come for you and your guns...as long as the laws are changed and your guns are no longer legally owned, then you'll turn them over, right? To stay legal so you don't lose your 2nd Amendment Right to execute them for approaching you because you broke the law at that point, right?
OR...you just say stupid shit and don't actually consider the consequences or how it was actually play out in real life. Fuck off, Roman.
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