(File Photo: Source for Photo: (File Photo: Source for Photo: Police respond to an active shooter situation at the Tree of Life synagogue on Wildins Avenue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pa., on Saturday, October 27, 2018. (Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette via AP)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) A commemoration ceremony that was inside the Jewish Community Center in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh marked eight years since the synagogue shooting at the former Tree of Life synagogue that took the lives of 11 people and changed the lives of many others. 

Family members lit 11 candles yesterday for the 11 congregants of Dor Hadash, New Light, and Tree of Life who were shot and killed on October 27th, 2018. 

The victims of that shooting were: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil Rosenthal, David Rosenthal, Bernice Simon, Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax and Irving Younger. 

That event brought a room of people together for a night of prayer, reflection and song. 

This ceremony finished with remarks from the event’s keynote speaker, Mark Nordenberg, who served as the chancellor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh.