The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette posted the first four words to the Mourner’s Kaddish in Hebrew on the front page of their Friday newspaper and on the top of their website.
Here is a picture of it:
"Magnified and sanctified be Your name"
These are the first words of the Jewish mourners' prayer, which will be recited tonight on the first Sabbath since the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting. pic.twitter.com/LJPsKdlWRQ
— Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (@PittsburghPG) November 2, 2018
David M. Shribman, the executive editor of the Post-Gazette, wrote that he decided to put those words in Hebrew when he realized that when “there are no words to express a community’s feelings, then maybe you are thinking in the wrong language.”
Shribman felt that by doing so, it brought “our readers to the heart of the incident that has marked our community, and displaying the heart of this community, including of course the Post-Gazette community” on the first Shabbat since the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue.
“This week, each entire congregation — indeed all of Pittsburgh — may well stand, in spirit if not in fact, for if Pittsburgh’s passage in the past several days has shown anything, it is that these losses are all of ours, and that the solidarity of Pittsburgh’s grief is the face we have shown to those beyond the three rivers to the four corners of the earth,” Shribman wrote.
Members of the Jewish community praised the Post-Gazette:
The headline of today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is composed of the opening words of the Kaddish, the Hebrew prayer recited by Jewish mourners. A beautiful gesture. pic.twitter.com/dezvABehhg
— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer) November 2, 2018
The front page of today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (@PittsburghPG) featured, in Hebrew, the first four words of the Kaddish, the prayer recited by #Jewish mourners. What a beautiful tribute. pic.twitter.com/XRjgHk9Pan
— Jewish Tweets (@JewishTweets) November 2, 2018
The last of the 11 victims of the shooting was buried on Friday.
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