{"id":1524,"date":"2023-03-30T00:39:32","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T00:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2024-05-04T00:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T00:59:55","slug":"your-next-jewish-read-squirrel-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/your-next-jewish-read-squirrel-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Next Jewish Read: Squirrel Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:46% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"694\" height=\"1026\" src=\"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Squirrel-Hill-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1525 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Squirrel-Hill-PM.png 694w, https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Squirrel-Hill-PM-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Squirrel-Hill-PM-693x1024.png 693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Title: Squirrel Hill &#8211; The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood<br><br>Author: Mark Oppenheimer<br><br>Year of Publication:  2021<br><br>Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf<br><br>Why I Bought It\/Borrowed It: I borrowed this book from my local public library after I heard Mark Oppenheimer talking with Liel Leibovitz on either the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/podcasts\/unorthodox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unorthodox podcast<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/podcasts\/take-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Take One podcast<\/a>. I can&#8217;t remember which. Both are definitely worth listening to on a regular basis.<br><br>Two Sentence Summary: I know you don&#8217;t want to read this book because it&#8217;s terrifying and heartbreaking and you just don&#8217;t want to deal, but this book, although it&#8217;s about a shooting, is really about a neighborhood which you will definitely want to read about. I think you may even find yourself wishing you could move to Squirrel Hill.<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the end, then, I wrote a hopeful sort of book, one that described the extraordinary outpouring of goodwill that can follow even the most horrific event. I got to describe the dawn, how \u201cjoy comes in the morning,\u201d to quote the Psalm. There was a lot of morning joy in Squirrel Hill, the neighborhood where Tree of Life sits; there is no neighborhood in the country with an older, more stable Jewish presence, and its tight-knit, communal spirit was on full display.\u00a0<\/p>\n<cite>Mark Oppenheimer, \u201cThe Soul of a Neighborhood\u201d: Three Years After the Shooting, Mark Oppenheimer Finds a Hopeful Story in Squirrel Hill (Op-Ed) From: Exploring Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and Extremism, October 19, 2021. https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/exploring-hate\/2021\/10\/19\/the-soul-of-a-neighborhood-mark-oppenheimer-squirrel-hill-shooting\/<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Squirrel Hill &#8211; The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood Author: Mark Oppenheimer Year of Publication: 2021 Publisher: Alfred&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,78],"tags":[108,109,110,138,105,106,107],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-your-next-jewish-read","tag-antisemitism","tag-community","tag-mass-shootings","tag-nonfiction","tag-pittsburgh","tag-squirrel-hill","tag-synagogues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Squirrel-Hill-PM.png","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yournextjewishread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}