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Five Years of Reporting on the Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

For Adam Reinherz, an award-winning journalist, it was something much more personal.
Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer is the President of the Shalom Hartman Institute and a leading thinker and author on the major challenges facing the Jewish people. He is the author of Shuva: The Future of the Jewish Past, the co-editor of The New Jewish Canon, and the host of the Identity/Crisis podcast. Under his leadership, the Shalom Hartman Institute has grown significantly as a leading think tank and educational center for the North American Jewish community,

 

The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October 2018 was the deadliest attack on Jewish people in American history. For Adam Reinherz, award-winning journalist and senior staff writer at the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, it was also something much more personal. In the years since the attack, he has reported on everything—from the tragedy to its fallout to the shooter’s recent death sentence—across dozens of articles, for the sake of both his Jewish community and the larger world. In this week’s episode, Adam and Yehuda Kurtzer discuss what it means to approach a story that holds both particular and universal resonance.

For a list of articles by Adam Reinherz click here.

A transcript of this episode is available here.

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