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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff gives remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Tree of Life complex in Pittsburgh, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The new structure is replacing the Tree of Life synagogue where 11 worshipers were murdered in 2018 in the deadliest act of antisemitism in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

Ceremony marks start of rebuilding for Pittsburgh synagogue targeted in antisemitic mass shooting

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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff gives remarks during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Tree of Life complex in Pittsburgh, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The new structure is replacing the Tree of Life synagogue where 11 worshipers were murdered in 2018 in the deadliest act of antisemitism in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

Ceremony marks start of rebuilding for Pittsburgh synagogue targeted in antisemitic mass shooting

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Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, center, Tree of Life congregation and 10/27 survivor, leads an interfaith blessing during the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Tree of Life complex in Pittsburgh, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The new structure is replacing the Tree of Life synagogue where 11 worshipers were murdered in 2018 in the deadliest act of antisemitism in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke)

Groundbreaking for new structure replacing Pittsburgh synagogue targeted in 2019 mass shooting

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A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, Oct. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Pittsburgh synagogue gunman will be sentenced to death for the nation’s worst antisemitic attack

By Peter Smith - Associated Press

A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, Oct. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Gunman who killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue is found eligible for the death penalty

By Peter Smith - Associated Press

A makeshift memorial stands outside the Tree of Life Synagogue in the aftermath of a deadly shooting in Pittsburgh, Oct. 29, 2018. More than a week after convicting a gunman in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, jurors will begin hearing arguments in federal court Monday, June 26, 2023, about whether he should receive the death penalty for killing 11 worshippers inside the Pittsburgh synagogue. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Trying to save his life, lawyers for Pittsburgh synagogue gunman argue he is mentally ill

By Peter Smith - Associated Press

This photo of bullet-damaged prayer book in the Tree of Life synagogue building in Pittsburgh was entered May 30, 2023, as a court exhibit by prosecutors in the federal trial of Robert Bowers. He faces multiple charges in the killing of 11 worshippers from three congregations and the wounding of seven worshippers and police officers in the building on Oct. 27, 2018. The charges include the obstruction of the free exercise of religion, resulting in death. (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania via AP)

Pittsburgh synagogue gunman is found guilty in the deadliest attack on Jewish people in US history

By Peter Smith - Associated Press

A Star of David hangs from a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood on April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) ** FILE **

Gunman in Pittsburgh synagogue massacre harbored ‘malice and hate’ for Jews, prosecutor says

By Peter Smith - Associated Press

A Star of David hangs from a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood on April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) ** FILE **

Jury selection begins over 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack

By Peter Smith and Mark Scolforo - Associated Press

This rendering provided by Lifang Vision Technology in May 2022 shows designs for the planned renovation of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, which on Oct. 27, 2018, was the scene of the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. On Tuesday, May 3, 2022 organizers released the new design plans by architect Daniel Libeskind, whose previous works include Jewish museums, Holocaust memorials and the master plan for World Trade Center after 9/11. (Lifang Vision Technology via AP)

New design, mission for site of Pittsburgh synagogue attack

By Peter Smith - Associated Press

A Star of David hangs from a fence outside the dormant landmark Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, as the date marking the third year since 11 people were killed in America's deadliest antisemitic attack on Oct. 27, 2018, approaches. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

$6.6M awarded to Tree of Life synagogue, site of massacre

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This Oct. 27, 2019 file photo shows passers by pausing outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on the first anniversary of the shooting at the synagogue, that killed 11 worshippers. Nearly $5.5 million that poured in from donors after the 2018 attack is being distributed according to a plan outlined Monday by Jewish groups. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) **FILE**

WH: Biden was talking about a phone call when he said he visited synagogue attacked by gunman

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 27, 2018 photo, Rabbi Eli Wilansky lights a candle after a mass shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The three congregations sharing space at the Tree of Life synagogue relocated after an anti-Semitic gunman killed 11 worshippers. In March 2020, the congregations dispersed from their new locations due to the coronavirus pandemic and switched to virtual services. (Steph Chamber/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

Attack, then pandemic: Pittsburgh Jewish congregations cope

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020, photo, Rabbi Jacqueline Mates-Muchin removes a Torah scroll from the ark, a cabinet that houses scrolls of the Hebrew Bible, while preparing for Shabbat morning service at Temple Sinai in Oakland, Calif. In September 2017, on the first day of Rosh Hoshana, the Jewish new year, a security guard found an anti-Semitic message scrawled on an outdoor wall of Temple Sinai. “Since 2017, the congregation has been looking to try to feel safe,” she said. “It’s another layer that we always have to be conscious of.” (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Stresses multiply for many US clergy: ‘We need help too’

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

Flower pots, each with a name of one of the 11 worshippers killed on Oct. 27, 2018, when a gunman opened fire as worship services began at the Tree of Life Synagogue, line the fence surrounding the synagogue on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The first anniversary of the deadly shooting at the synagogue is Sunday, Oct., 27. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

The Latest: Flowers at synagogue honor shooting victims

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