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By Jerusalem Post Staff - May 5, 2022
Three and a half years after the worst antisemitic attack on US soil, the Pittsburgh Jewish community is announcing the creation of a new national institution dedicated to ending antisemitism. It will be called simply: Tree of Life.
The institution will include a museum, a memorial and a center for education. The museum and memorial will both be dedicated to the 11 individuals from three Pittsburgh congregations who were killed in an attack on the Tree of Life synagogue on October 27, 2018.
The institution will strive to be an incubator for new ideas to counter antisemitism, and against identity-based hate in general. Its founding is rooted in the belief that eliminating antisemitism will reduce other forms of hate as well.
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