Dor Hadash, targeted in massacre, declines to take part in Trump's Rosh Hashana call
Representatives of Congregation Dor Hadash, one of the three Jewish congregations targeted in the Oct. 27, 2018, synagogue massacre in Squirrel Hill, declined an invitation to join in a large telephone audience Friday to receive greetings from President Donald Trump upon the start of the Jewish New Year.
Instead, the congregants said they would use the upcoming High Holidays, beginning Sunday night with Rosh Hashana, as a period of reflection and resolve to continue fighting white supremacism and gun violence and to support immigrants and refugees.
The issues named in the Dor Hadash statement are all directly connected to the massacre. It was Dor Hadash’s participation in a National Refugee Shabbat, promoted by the resettlement organization HIAS, that caught the attention of the alleged killer who then went to the address where the congregation was meeting alongside two other congregations in the Tree of Life / Or L’Simcha synagogue building.
Members of all three congregations were among the 11 slain by the heavily armed killer, who made anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant and white supremacist statements online and at the scene.
https://www.post-gazette.com/news/faith-religion/2019/09/27/Dor-Hadash-President-Trump-Rosh-Hashana-Tree-of-Life-shootings/stories/201909270148