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A man charged with killing 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue should face the death penalty if convicted, federal prosecutors said in a court filing Monday. The U.S. attorney’s office in Pittsburgh filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against 46-year-old Robert Bowers in last year’s attack. The government filing said justification for a death sentence included...

Rabbi Shaya Gopin told us about this year’s event in West Hartford.

Duke University officials say someone painted a Nazi symbol on a mural honoring victims of last month’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. University president Vincent Price said in a letter to the school community that a red swastika was painted Sunday night on the tribute to those who died in the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue. The East Campus Bridge...

The Amity Regional School District is responding to complaints of anti-Semitism and intolerant behavior after high school students and parents expressed outrage at school officials for not doing enough to address these issues during Monday night’s Board of Education meeting in Woodbridge.

Amity High students told the Board of Education that they do not feel safe at school after a series of anti-Semitic incidents.

About 100 people gathered in a cold drizzle for what was called a “healing service” outside the Pittsburgh synagogue that was the scene of a mass shooting a week ago. Former Tree of Life rabbi Chuck Diamond led Saturday morning’s 45-minute service, which featured prayers, songs and poetry. The Rev. Lee Clark, a retired Presbyterian pastor from the Pittsburgh area,...

Jewish congregations throughout the country are holding Sabbath services Friday for the first time since the deadly shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue last week, inviting people of all faiths to attend through a social media campaign to #ShowUpforShabbat and support the Jewish community.

Jewish leaders across the country are not allowing their communities to live in fear. Instead, ahead of the first Sabbath after the massacre in Pittsburgh, they’re encouraging people of all faiths to Show Up for Shabbat in solidarity with Pittsburgh’s Jewish community.

NBC’s “This Is Us” cast and crew are among the many commemorating last weekend’s mass shooting in Pittsburgh, which is also where the show is set. Eleven people were killed and four police officers injured when a gunman armed with an assault rifle opened fire on the city’s Tree of Life Synagogue congregation during its Sabbath services on Sat., Oct....

Eva Schloss, the stepsister of Anne Frank, captivated thousands of people at The Bushnell in Hartford on Monday.

Communities across the state came together to remember the victims of the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh.

A 46-year-old man armed with an assault rifle opened fire at a synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood on Saturday morning, the Jewish Sabbath, killing 11 people and injuring four police officers before being taken into custody, according to officials and law enforcement sources. The suspect, Robert Bowers, traded gunfire with police and was shot several times. Bowers, who was...

Members of the Jewish community in Connecticut reacted with shock and disbelief following the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday that claimed eleven lives.

Local synagogues have extra security following a shooting in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning.