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Jesuitical

Life after the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history

Jesuitical

America Media

Spirituality, Christianity, News, News Commentary, Religion & Spirituality

4.8949 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On Oct. 27, 2018, 11 people attending Shabbat services at the ​​Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburg were killed in the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history. In the weeks and months that followed, when the public’s attention moved on, journalist Mark Oppenhiemer didn’t look away. He made over 30 reporting trips to the Squirrel Hill neighborhood to understand how the oldest Jewish community in America was seeking to heal after the massacre. He shares the lessons he learned in the new book Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood. We talk to Mark about how this horrific attack affected the Jewish community throughout the country and why the media often fails to cover anti-Semitism in America. In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley discuss Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s recent meeting with Pope Francis. Plus, Pope Francis has cleared the beatification of Pope John Paul I, who, if canonized, would become the fifth 20th-century pope to be named a saint. We ask: Should we be canonizing so many pontiffs? Links from the show: Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood Pope Francis receives Speaker Nancy Pelosi in private audience Pope Francis clears the way for the beatification of Pope John Paul I Papal Saints What’s on tap? Cajun Bloody Mary’s, recipe courtesy of Kevin Acord Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Father Jim Martin and Jesuit priest.

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Much of my ministry focuses on helping people to pray.

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One of my own daily prayer practices is the examine, which helps me to pay attention to how

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God is working in my daily life.

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On days when I'm feeling joyful or at peace, and on days when I'm feeling anxious or worried I can always rely on the

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examine to ground me. Now I'm excited to share 10 brand new sessions of the

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examine with you in a new collaboration between America Media and the Ritual app.

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Join me in praying the examine. Download the Ritual app to start listening for free. Hello and welcome to Judge Whiticle, a podcast by the young hip and lay editors of

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America media that lay part means we aren't Jesuits but we work with them

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join us each week for a smart Catholic take on faith culture in the news.

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Often over drinks.

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I'm Ashley McKinless and I'm joined by Zach Davis.

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Great to be with you Ashley.

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Good to have you here.

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Yeah, it's good to be here.

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I am coming up on two years of marriage this week.

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Yeah, that was that's very exciting. Yep. So shout out to my wife Amanda.

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Two years of marriage mostly during a pandemic. Yeah.

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Wild. It's funny to to in some ways we've said that like

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those years should count at least double. Yeah. But we you know really one of the graces of the

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pandemic is being able to spend so much time with

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my each other is newlyweds so that's good so we celebrated that this week how are you doing

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