The Welcome Center at 355 Fifth Ave. S., St. Cloud.
A noon Nov. 1 event at the St. Cloud State Welcome Center will offer Central Minnesotans an opportunity to stand in solidarity with victims of the recent mass shooting in Pittsburgh.
A single, male shooter is charged with 44 federal crimes — most of them death penalty offenses — in the slaying of 11 worshippers during last weekend’s Shabbat services at the Tree Of Life – Or L’Simcha synagogue.
The alleged shooter targeted Jews online and made anti-Semitic comments during the shooting, according to law enforcement sources.
“This event is intended to send a message of solidarity, love and support to the Jewish congregations at the Tree of Life in Pittsburgh, to our local Jewish community and to the vulnerable among us who share Minnesota as a place we all call home,” said Dan Wildeson, director of St. Cloud State’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education.
There will be a brief program with remarks and readings. Light refreshments will be served.
“The moral and civic act of caring for the wellbeing of the other, of those who are not you, and are not part of your identity group, is what sustains a diverse and shared public realm,” said Wildeson. “Jewish congregants that worshipped in the Tree of Life were involved in doing exactly this.”
The event is sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education, the Jewish community in St. Cloud and UniteCloud.
The list of dead:
Rose Mallinger, 97
Jerry Rabinowitz, 66
Cecil Rosenthal, 59
David Rosenthal, 54
Daniel Stein, 71
Richard Gottfried, 65
Joyce Fienberg, 75
Melvin Wax, 88
Sylvan Simon, 86
Bernice Simon, 84
Irving Younger, 65
