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(55,684 posts) Mon Oct 27, 2025, 02:41 PM Yesterday

(JEWISH GROUP) She survived the worst antisemitic attack in US history. Finally, she's ready to talk about it

Audrey Glickman wants to talk.

In many ways, she has felt silenced since 9:50 a.m. on Oct. 27, 2018.

On that fateful Shabbat morning, Glickman, a longtime member of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, was leading services in a small chapel when she heard the unmistakable rat-a-tat of gunfire.

She grabbed congregant Joe Charny, then 90, and raced up the stairs and into a small room filled with bags of clothes. Together, huddled and scared, they hid under their prayer shawls.

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That Happened Near My Alma Mater Deep State Witch Yesterday #1

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1. That Happened Near My Alma Mater

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Mon Oct 27, 2025, 03:12 PM

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I went to Chatham College (now University) in Pittsburgh. The Tree of Life Synagogue is right down Wilkins Avenue from Chatham. When I first saw the reports, the news media was broadcasting from the parking lot by our old gym, now arts center. Plus, one of my friends' ex-husband and son were on their way to that service that day. I was horrified. Squirrel Hill is such a lovely place.

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