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The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
Saturday, November 3, 2018
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SYNAGOGUE SHOOTING
Congregations attacked
to conduct joint service
Final, oldest victim laid to rest at Friday funeral
BY MARYCLAIRE DALE
Associated Press
PITTSBURGH - The
three congregations
attacked at a Pittsburgh
synagogue will gather for a
joint service Saturday, while
a prayer vigil is planned out
side their desecrated wor
ship space to mark the time
the massacre began one
week earlier.
Meanwhile, Friday
brought the end of a wrench
ing series of funerals as the
oldest victim, 97-year-old
Rose Mallinger, was laid to
rest.
“We will reopen, but it
will not be for quite a while,”
Rabbi Jeffrey Myers said
Friday morning, as he pre
pared for the last funeral
service. Myers himself sur
vived the attack that began
just as Shabbat services got
underway. In the end, 11
people were gunned down in
the deadliest attack on Jews
in U.S. history.
Mallinger’s daughter
attended her mother’s
funeral at Rodef Shalom
synagogue, accompanied by
a nurse, Rabbi Aaron Bisno
said. The 61-year-old daugh
ter had been hospitalized
since the massacre Satur
day at the Tree of Life syna
gogue. Bisno didn’t know if
she returned to the hospital
after the funeral.
The suspect, Robert
Bowers, pleaded not guilty
Thursday to federal hate
crime charges that accuse
him of killing 11 people
and injuring six others as
they tried to practice their
religion. He could face the
death penalty.
The hearing to advise
him of the 44-count indict
ment returned Wednesday,
marked his second brief
court appearance since he
allegedly opened fire at the
synagogue in Pittsburgh’s
Squirrel Hill neighborhood.
“Yes!” Bowers said in a
loud voice when asked if he
understood the charges.
Authorities say Bowers
raged against Jews during
and after the massacre. He
remains jailed without bail.
University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center said Friday
that the two most seriously
injured victims have been
moved out of the intensive
care unit. Hospital officials
said a 70-year-old man was
upgraded from critical to
stable condition, while a
40-year-old police officer
remains in stable condition.
The officer was previ
ously identified as Timothy
Matson, who suffered mul
tiple gunshot wounds. The
wounded congregant is Dan
iel Leger, a nurse and hospi
tal chaplain.
The city’s Jewish commu
nity had begun burying its
dead Tuesday as thousands
of mourners attended ser
vices for a beloved family
doctor and two brothers.
The funerals have continued
each day since, and included
services for Bernice and Syl
van Simon, who were mar
ried in 1956 at Tree of Life,
and killed there Saturday.
Mallinger, whose funeral
was Friday, had also
attended Tree of Life for
more than 60 years.
It was the “center of her
very active life,” her fam
ily said in a statement dis
tributed by University of
Photos by KEITH SRAKOCIC I Associated Press
Visitors reach for each other as they gather for the funeral of Rose Mallinger, 97, at
Congregation Rodef Shalom on Friday, Nov. 2, in Pittsburgh.
‘She retained her
sharp wit, humor
and intelligence
until the very
last day. She did
everything she
wanted to do in
her life.’
Family of Rose Mallinger
eral media groups.
The Pittsburgh Post-
Gazette reports that divorce
records suggest Randall
Bowers was the synagogue
suspect’s father.
US restores Iran
sanctions lifted in
Obama nuclear deal
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The
Trump administration
on Friday restored U.S.
sanctions on Iran that
had been lifted under the
2015 nuclear deal, but
carved out exemptions for
eight countries that can
still import oil from the
Islamic Republic without
penalty.
The sanctions take
effect Monday and cover
Iran’s shipping, financial
and energy sectors. They
are the second batch the
administration has reim
posed since Trump with
drew from the landmark
accord in May.
The 2015 deal, one of
former President Barack
Obama’s biggest diplo
matic achievements,
gave Iran billions of dol
lars in sanctions relief in
exchange for curbs on its
nuclear program, which
many believed it was using
to develop atomic weap
ons. Trump repeatedly
denounced the agreement
as the “worst ever” negoti
ated by the United States
and said it gave Iran too
much in return for too
little.
But proponents as well
as the other parties to the
deal — Britain, China,
France, Germany, Rus
sia and the European
Union — have vehemently
defended it. The Europe
ans have mounted a drive
to save the agreement
without the U.S., fearing
that the new sanctions will
drive Iran to pull out and
resume all of its nuclear
work.
Friday’s announcement
comes just days before
congressional midterm
elections in the U.S., allow
ing Trump to highlight
his decision to withdraw
from the deal — a move
that was popular among
Republicans.
Shortly after the
announcement, Trump
tweeted what looks like
a movie poster image of
himself that takes cre
ative inspiration from
the TV series “Game of
Thrones” with the tagline:
“Sanctions are Coming,
November 5.”
Secretary of State Mike
Pompeo said the sanctions
are “aimed at fundamen
tally altering the behavior
of the Islamic Republic of
Iran.” He has issued a list
of 12 demands that Iran
must meet to get the sanc
tions lifted that include
an end to its support for
terrorism and military
engagement in Syria and a
halt to nuclear and ballistic
missile development.
Camera crews record the hundreds of visitors gathering for
the funeral of Rose Mallinger.
Pittsburgh Medical Center.
“Her involvement with the
synagogue went beyond the
Jewish religion. ... It was
her place to be social, to be
active and to meet family
and friends.”
Though advanced in
years, Mallinger always
stood during services. She
faithfully attended, accom
panied by her whole family
on major holidays.
“She retained her sharp
wit, humor and intelligence
until the very last day,” the
family statement said. “She
did everything she wanted to
do in her life.”
Also Friday, Allegheny
County authorities released
the redacted 1979 court file
of a man believed to be Bow
ers’ father. The court files
and press clips showed the
man, 27-year-old Randall
Bowers, had killed himself
while out on bail in a rape
case.
He had been charged
with abducting a 20-year-old
woman as she left a pizza
shop, forcing her to drive
him to a location where he
then sexually assaulted her.
He was released on $5,000
bail signed by his mother,
a hospital supervisor in
California. The files were
released Friday with the vic
tim’s name redacted after a
court hearing sought by sev-
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