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Seeking Justice: Guilty Verdict in Tree of Life Shooting
After only one day of deliberation, a jury in a federal court in Pittsburgh, PA found the man charged with killing eleven people in the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history, guilty on all 63 charges including hate crimes. Six other people were wounded in the attack on three congregations at Tree of Life synagogue on October 27, 2018. The sentencing phase of the trial, including testimony from the victims’ families, is expected to last six weeks. Read more and find links to updates on the trial…
LA Screening of ‘Repairing The World’
In collaboration with IKAR and Samara Hutman's The Righteous Conversations Project, we gathered to watch the new NIOT film Repairing the World: Stories from The Tree of Life. What followed was a deeply meaningful conversation about unity, resilience, and hope featuring: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Congressman Adam Schiff, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Rabbi Sharon Brous, Executive Director of NewGround, Aziza Hasan, and the film's director Patrice O'Neill…
Watch: ‘Repairing the World’ Panel at the Columbia Journalism School
Watch this important conversation, hosted by the Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights at Columbia University on Sept. 22, 2022
‘Repairing the World’ Wins AUDIENCE AWARD at 2022 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival!
"Heartbreakingly relevant, Repairing the World: Stories from the Tree of Life, chronicles the tumultuous three years following the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue which took the lives of 11 Jewish congregants in the fall of 2018." -SFJFF