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Wednesday, October 31,2018 3A
SYNAGOGUE SHOOTING
Jewish community begins burying dead
More than 1,000 people attended service to mourn brothers killed in synagogue massacre
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BY MARYCLAIRE DALE
AND ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH - Pitts
burgh’s Jewish community
began burying its dead Tues
day after the synagogue mas
sacre, conducting funerals
for a beloved family doctor,
a pillar of the congregation,
and two 50-something broth
ers known as the Rosenthal
“boys.”
President Donald Trump
arrived in Pittsburgh to pay
his respects and encountered
hundreds of shouting, chant
ing protesters with signs
such as “It’s your fault” and
“Words matter,” a reference
to allegations his bellicose
language has emboldened
bigots. Pennsylvania’s gov
ernor and the mayor of Pitts
burgh declined to join him
during the visit.
Earlier in the day, thou
sands of mourners jammed
a synagogue, a Jewish com
munity center and a third,
undisclosed site for the first
in a weeklong series of funer
als for victims of the deadli
est anti-Semitic attack in U.S.
history.
Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, Dan
iel Stein and Cecil and David
Rosenthal were among 11
people killed in the shooting
rampage at the Tree of Life
synagogue Saturday. Robert
Gregory Bowers, a 46-year-
old truck driver who authori
ties say raged against Jews,
was arrested on federal hate-
crime charges that could
bring the death penalty.
With Tree of Life still cor
doned off as a crime scene,
more than 1,000 people
poured into Rodef Shalom,
one of the city’s oldest and
largest synagogues, to mourn
the Rosenthal brothers, ages
59 and 54.
The two intellectually dis
abled men were “beautiful
souls” who had “not an ounce
of hate in them — some
thing we’re terribly missing
today,” Rabbi Jeffrey Myers,
a survivor of the massacre,
said at their funeral.
Myers, his voice quiver
ing, told the Rosenthals’
parents and other family
members: “The entire world
is sharing its grief with you,
so you don’t walk alone.”
The brothers were widely
known as “the boys,” the
Rosenthals’ sister, Diane
Hirt, noted. “They were
innocent like boys, not hard
ened like men,” she said.
She said Cecil — a gre
garious man with a booming
voice who was lightheart-
edly known as the mayor of
Squirrel Hall and the “town
crier” for the gossip he man
aged to gather — would
have especially enjoyed the
media attention this week, a
thought that brought laugh
ter from the congregation.
Rabinowitz’s funeral was
held at the Jewish Commu
nity Center in the city’s Squir
rel Hill section, the historic
Jewish neighborhood where
the rampage took place. Two
police vehicles were posted
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Trump wants to end birthright citizenship
MATT R0URKE I Associated Press
A casket is carried out of Rodef Shalom Congregation after the funeral services Tuesday,
Oct. 30, for brothers Cecil and David Rosenthal in Pittsburgh.
at a side door and two at the
main entrance.
A line stretched around
the block as mourners —
some in white medical coats,
some wearing yarmulkes,
black hats or head scarves
— passed beneath the blue
Romanesque arches into the
brick building.
The 66-year-old Rabinow
itz was a go-to doctor for HIV
patients in the epidemic’s
early and desperate days,
a physician who always
hugged his patients as they
left his office.
“A lot of people are feel
ing really angry about this.
A lot of rage built up inside
about this, because of it
being a hate crime. Don’t get
me wrong; I do. But I’m so
overwhelmed with sadness
right now that I can’t even be
angry right now,” said Robin
Faulkner, whose family had
seen Rabinowitz for 30 years
and counted him as a dear
friend. “It’s just such a loss.
Just tragic.”
A private funeral was also
held for Stein, the 71-year-
old men’s club president at
Tree of Life.
The other victims’ funer
als have been scheduled
through Friday.
Trump and first lady Mela
nia Trump landed in Pitts
burgh after the day’s services
and lit candles at the Tree of
Life for the victims. Outside,
they laid white roses as well
as stones for each of the
dead, a Jewish burial tradi
tion. The president and first
lady later went to a hospital
to visit with survivors.
They were joined by
Trump’s daughter Ivanka
and her husband, Jared
Kushner, as well as Myers,
the Tree of Life rabbi, and
Israeli Ambassador Ron
Dermer.
Hundreds of protesters
gathered near the synagogue
and the hospital.
“He didn’t pull the trigger,
but his verbiage and actions
don’t help,” said Squirrel Hill
resident Paul Carberry, 55,
wearing anti-Trump patches
on his hat and jacket.
Democratic Mayor Bill
Peduto had asked Trump
not to come while the city
was burying its dead. He
and Gov. Tom Wolf, a fellow
Democrat, said they would
skip the president’s visit.
“Community leaders
expressed to the governor
that they did not feel it was
appropriate for Trump to
come, so the governor made
a decision not to join him
on his visit out of respect
for the families and the
community,” said Beth
Melena, Wolf’s campaign
spokeswoman.
Among the mourners
at the Rosenthal brothers’
funeral was Dr. Abe Fried
man, who typically sat in the
back row of Tree of Life with
the two men but was late to
synagogue on Saturday and
was not there when the gun
man opened fire.
As he stood in line at the
funeral, Friedman wondered
why he had been spared.
“Why did things fall into
place for me?” he asked. “I
usually sit in the back row.
In the last row, everyone got
killed.”
This is about winning an
election next week.”
Trump’s citizenship pro
posal would inevitably spark
a long-shot legal battle over
whether the president can
alter the long-accepted
understanding that the 14th
Amendment grants citizen
ship to any child born on U.S.
soil, regardless of his par
ents’ immigration status.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Thou
sands of U.S. troops to stop an
“invasion” of migrants. Tent
cities for asylum seekers.
An end for the Constitution’s
guarantee of birth
right citizenship.
With his eyes
squarely on next
Tuesday’s elections,
President Donald
Trump is rushing
out hardline immi
gration declara
tions, promises and
actions as he tries to
mobilize supporters
to retain Republican control
of Congress. His own cam
paign in 2016 concentrated
on border fears, and that’s
his final-week focus in the
midterm fight.
“This has nothing to do
with elections,” the presi
dent insists. But his timing is
striking.
Trump says he will send
more than 5,000 military
troops to the Mexican bor
der to help defend against
caravans of Central Ameri
can migrants who are on
foot hundreds of miles away.
Tent cities would not resolve
the massive U.S. backlog of
asylum seekers. And most
legal scholars say it would
take a new constitutional
amendment to alter the cur
rent one granting citizenship
to anyone born in America.
Still, Trump plunges
ahead with daily alarms and
proclamations about immi
gration in tweets, interviews
and policy announcements
in the days leading up to
elections that Democrats
hope will give them at least
partial control of Congress.
Trump and many top
aides have long seen the
immigration issue as the
most effective rallying cry
for his base of support
ers. The president had
been expected to make
an announcement about
new actions at the border
on Tuesday, but that was
scrapped so he could travel
instead to Pittsburgh, where
11 people were massacred
in a synagogue on
Saturday.
Between the
shootings, the dead
liest attack on Jews
in U.S. history, and
the mail bomb scare
targeting Democrats
and a media organi
zation, the caravan
of migrants slowly
trudging north had
faded from front pages and
cable TV.
But with well-timed inter
views on Fox and “Axios on
HBO,” Trump revived some
of his hardest-line immigra
tion ideas:
■ An executive order to
revoke the right to citizen
ship for babies born to non-
U.S. citizens on American
soil.
■ And the prolonged
detention of anyone coming
across the U.S.-Mexico bor
der, including those seek
ing asylum, in “tent cities”
erected “all over the place.”
The administration also
announced plans to deploy
5,200 active duty troops —
double the 2,000 who are in
Syria fighting the Islamic
State group — to the border
to stave off the caravans.
The main caravan, still in
southern Mexico, was con
tinuing to melt away — from
the original 7,000 to about
4,000 — as a smaller group
apparently hoped to join it.
Trump insists his immi
gration moves have nothing
to do with politics, even as he
rails against the caravans at
campaign rallies.
“I’ve been saying this long
before the election. I’ve been
saying this before I ever
thought of running for office.
We have to have strong bor
ders,” Trump told Fox News
host Laura Ingraham in an
interview Monday.
Critics weren’t buying it.
“They’re playing all of
us,” said David W. Leopold,
an immigration attorney and
counsel to the immigration
advocacy group America’s
Voice. “This is not about
locking people up. This is not
about birthright citizenship.
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