January 27, 2023 | 5 Shevat 5783
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office he has held since becoming a state representative in 2005; another was from the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History and belonged to a Jewish World War II veteran; and the third was a bible from Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Congregation. During a 23-minute speech after his swearing-in, Shapiro made implicit and explicit Jewish references to the crowd of former governors, current General Assembly representatives and state Supreme Court justices and voters/residents who drove from across the commonwealth to watch the transfer of power beneath the capitol dome. “Along the winding road that has led to this moment, I have been grounded in my
group of Jewish teens was harassed on Saturday, Jan. 14 while leaving B’nai Emunoh Chabad at 4315 Murray Avenue in Greenfield. According to a witness who wished to remain anonymous, a group of Black teenagers began to harass the Jewish teens as they left the Chabad center at approximately 6:30 p.m. “They got very loud,” the eyewitness reported. “They started laughing and said, ‘effing’ something. Another one made a comment to one of the Jewish boys. They said something like, ‘You Jews have got all the money.’ I thought it might escalate, but the Black teenagers got on the 93 bus to Hazelwood.” While the incident left a lasting impression on the witness, he said he spoke to the Jewish teens the next day, and they didn’t think it was a big deal. The witness reported the incident to the Zone 4 Pittsburgh Police. This is the third known incident of antisemitic harassment since the start of the new year taking place in the neighborhood abutting Squirrel Hill. Earlier in the month, a group of juveniles harassed Jewish community members, asking if they were “fake Jews” and swearing at them, according to Shawn Brokos, director of community security for the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh. At the time, two separate incidents were reported to the police, who said that because the suspects are juveniles, charging them with crimes would prove “challenging.”
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Josh Shapiro and his wife, Lori, enjoy the inaugural festivities at the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex in Harrisburg on Jan. 17. Photo by Jarrad Saffren By Jarrad Saffren | Contributing Writer
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n this age of rising antisemitism, in steps new Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who wears his Judaism on his suit sleeve. And in the 2022 governor’s race, Shapiro beat an opponent, Republican Doug Mastriano, who openly flirted with antisemites by more than 700,000 votes and almost 15 percentage points. On Jan. 17 outside the statehouse in Harrisburg, Shapiro — the open, proud and victorious Jewish governor — was on full display. He took the oath of office from Pennsylvania Chief Justice Debra Todd with his hand on a stack of three Jewish bibles. One was his, and the good book on which he has taken the oath for every
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