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Pittsburghers share their stories of the deadly Tree of Life synagogue attack.

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Bound in the Bond of Life challenges the many dry, usually emotionless, and very monotone media and encyclopedic descriptions of what has become known as the 'Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting.' or these concluding words, As antisemitic attacks have continued across America since the attack on the Jewish congregations of Pittsburgh, there will, unfortunately, be continued spiritual, psychological, and even political needs for other hurt communities to commemorate their own lost loved ones. A thoughtful and insightful publication as Bound to the Bond of Life may set the template. Let us pray that there will be no more need for such anthologies. --Religious Studies Review Due to length constraints, and out of a genuine desire for the readers to experience the anthology firsthand, it would not suffice to detail every individual essay in the volume. Yet it must be explained that although each essay conveys authentic emotions and even practical advice, the combined strength of the contributors' words is to be found in their linked context. --Religious Studies Review Despite the challenges in reading a book like this, I couldn't put it down. The writing itself is phenomenal, and the grief is meant to be shared. --Tradition Bound in the Bond of Life is a document to be read and contemplated, not summarized--a close-to-the-event memorial that expresses grief, the search for understanding and the effort to find a way forward. --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Gathering accounts from local journalists, academics, rabbis and community members, Eric Lidji and Beth Kissileff reveal efforts to make sense of the shooting, from raw, first-person descriptions to pieces by those who translated the horror into activism. -- Hadassah Magazine Raw and profound. --Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle The voices that animate this collection are varied and stunning. -- Pittsburgh Current What does it take to mend the world? Parts prayer, howl, remembrance and meditation, the essays in Bound in the Bond of Life go beyond the initial shock and grief of October 27th to examine the meaning of community and the power of faith under attack. Rather than make sense of hate, the Pittsburghers here wisely try to find perspective on a moment evil struck too close to home. --Stewart O'Nan

Bound in the Bond of Life is a document to be read and contemplated, not summarized--a close-to-the-event memorial that expresses grief, the search for understanding and the effort to find a way forward. --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Gathering accounts from local journalists, academics, rabbis and community members, Eric Lidji and Beth Kissileff reveal efforts to make sense of the shooting, from raw, first-person descriptions to pieces by those who translated the horror into activism.--Hadassah Magazine Raw and profound.--Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle The voices that animate this collection are varied and stunning.--Pittsburgh Current What does it take to mend the world? Parts prayer, howl, remembrance and meditation, the essays in Bound in the Bond of Life go beyond the initial shock and grief of October 27th to examine the meaning of community and the power of faith under attack. Rather than make sense of hate, the Pittsburghers here wisely try to find perspective on a moment evil struck too close to home.--Stewart O'Nan

Bound in the Bond of Life is a document to be read and contemplated, not summarized--a close-to-the-event memorial that expresses grief, the search for understanding and the effort to find a way forward. --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Gathering accounts from local journalists, academics, rabbis and community members, Eric Lidji and Beth Kissileff reveal efforts to make sense of the shooting, from raw, first-person descriptions to pieces by those who translated the horror into activism. -- Hadassah Magazine Raw and profound. --Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle The voices that animate this collection are varied and stunning. -- Pittsburgh Current What does it take to mend the world? Parts prayer, howl, remembrance and meditation, the essays in Bound in the Bond of Life go beyond the initial shock and grief of October 27th to examine the meaning of community and the power of faith under attack. Rather than make sense of hate, the Pittsburghers here wisely try to find perspective on a moment evil struck too close to home. --Stewart O'Nan

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Beth Kissileff is the author of the novel Questioning Return and editor of the essay collections Reading Genesis: Beginnings and Reading Exodus: Journeys. She has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Minnesota, Carleton College, Smith College, and Mount Holyoke College. Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, Tablet, Religion News Service, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and the New York Times, as well as other places. She is the spouse of Rabbi Jonathan Perlman of New Light Congregation, who survived the October 27 attack by hiding himself and others.

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