Local Synagogues increase security in wake of Pittsburgh shooting

Scores of synagogues around the region and the nation beefed up security in the wake of Saturday’s Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh as rabbis and other religious leaders called for a dialing down of the toxic rhetoric that seems to have taken hold of the nation in recent years. Soon after the Saturday morning attack that was called the deadliest on the Jewish community in U.S. history, rabbis and synagogue officials began sending reassurances to congregants — although some had to delay because the use of electric devices is forbidden until sundown for Orthodox Jews.

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