Hi, and welcome to this special edition of Amicus.

I'm Dahlia Lithwick.

I cover the courts and the law for Slate.

This is an off week for us, but it felt like there was something to say about the events last week in Pittsburgh.

And so we have brought in Rabbi Chuck Diamond.

He was the rabbi at the Tree of Life Synagogue for seven years and actually in the building at an affiliated group for two years before.

So nine years at the synagogue.

And first of all, Chuck, thank you for joining us this morning. I'm glad to. And I should add to caveats. One is that I've

known Chuck since I was 10 years old. He was, I think, the first person who met me when I got

off the bus at summer camp, my first time at sleepaway camp. And you didn't get back on the bus.

That's a beautiful thing.

I stayed in no small part because he was a rabbi who juggled.

And then my kids actually both know Rabbi Chuck and I should note that my son, Kobe,

who's 15, is in the studio with me today to say, hey.

Hi.

Hey.

So, Chuck, I guess I want to start with, you know, this is your community.

I think you knew 10 of the 11 victims.

I knew 9 of the 11s fairly well, and didn't really know the other two so well.

And this week for you has just been one funeral after another and trying to comfort the wounded and trying to be with the grieving families.

And it's a week when folks will hear this.

It will be exactly a week.

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