It was the first commemoration since the killer was convicted and sentenced to death after a long-stalled legal process.
While the commemoration focused on the Pittsburgh attack, there were reminders of the ongoing war in the Middle East.
But Israeli victims of the Hamas attacks were also on his mind.
Will anything be done for them?”The commemoration comes as plans advance for the reconstruction of the Tree of Life synagogue complex, which has been dormant since the shootings.
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Persons:
”, Maggie Feinstein, Robert Bowers, Bowers, Eric Olshan, “, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, Myers, it’s, — Dor Hadash, Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, David Rosenthal, Cecil Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Dan Stein, Melvin Wax, Irving Younger, Joyce Fienberg's, Howard Fienberg, I’ve, Daniel Libeskind
Organizations:
PITTSBURGH, Western, Western Pennsylvania U.S, Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP
Locations:
Pittsburgh, Israel, United States, Maine, Schenley, Western Pennsylvania, Gaza, America