SPECIAL: The Deadly Shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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🗓️ 3 November 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:25.5 | Hi and welcome to this special edition of Anacos. 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 library. |
| 0:54.5 | 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. |
| 1:09.5 | I'm glad to die. 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 sleep away camp. |
| 1:21.5 | 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, all right. |
| 1:41.5 | So Chuck, I guess I want to start with, you know, this is your community. I think you knew 10 of the 11 victims. |
| 1:51.5 | I knew nine of the 11s fairly well and didn't really know the other two so well. |
| 1:59.5 | 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. |
| 2:16.5 | And I guess my first question is how are you? |
| 2:21.5 | Thank you for asking. You know, it's been obviously a real difficult week. It seems like one long day. And we've been going from funeral as a community from one funeral to the next to the next to the next today is the last funeral for Rose Malinger 97 years old. |
| 2:42.5 | A beautiful soul, a wonderful person. I wouldn't have heard a fly. Very active for 97 years old. Her daughter was with her and she would come every week be there on time. |
| 2:58.5 | It was a joy having her as a congregant to be her rabbi. I've known her son Alan since kindergarten. Sort of a special nature of our Jewish community. |
| 3:12.5 | I'm tragic and I will miss Rose so very much. |
| 3:18.5 | You know, I sort of have become the unofficial spokesman for the Jewish community. The rabbis who were involved are doing such a wonderful job. But they're so not only recovering from the trauma of having been there and having escaped with their lives. |
| 3:34.5 | And in some cases, having to watch their congregants being executed within earshot. And they are so busy officiating at the funerals and comforting their mourners. I give them a lot of credit. |
| 3:50.5 | So I've been able to fill in and sort of because of my connection to the synagogue and to the community having been raised here and lived here large portions of my life and raised my kids here and live in a house that I grew up in. |
| 4:06.5 | You know, again, it's been the media has I think been great. I have to say I compliment all of them. But it's been one thing after the other calls constantly. And in addition, I have a bar mitzvah tomorrow. So I've got to, you know, I want to make that as joyous as I can for the sort of my student. |
| 4:25.5 | I wonder if you could scroll a hill that the picture that's been emerging in the press rabbi check is is of this kind of I mean it was quite literally Mr Rogers original neighborhood and we're hearing that that you know it was it's just this I mean in addition to being this really landmark Jewish neighborhood also just a place of you know settling massive amounts of new refugees in the last few years and sort of minorities and all sorts of just it sounds like like my dream. |
| 4:55.5 | Of America, can you tell us a little bit about how the rest of the community we've heard about you know seeks coming out to support and Muslims raising funds. Can you talk a little bit about what that looks like from your end. |
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