PHILADELPHIA – (WBAP/KLIF) – Retired Rabbi Ned Soltz of Arlington’s Congregation Beth Shalom is calling for Americans to start talking with each other, discussing differences honestly, and then focusing on what we have in common. Soltz suggests it may be the only way to stop increasing violence borne from differences and hatred of groups or individuals different than ourselves.
Soltz’s comments follow the Saturday shootings inside a Pittsburg synagogue that killed, at last update, at least 11 people, with six others injured, including four police officers who responded. The suspect was arrested and has been identified as 46 year old Robert Bowers.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the Justice Department intends to file hate crime and other charges against the man accused in a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that killed 11 people.
In a statement Saturday, Sessions said the killings were “reprehensible and utterly repugnant to the values of this nation.”
That echoes earlier comments from President Donald Trump, who said such shooters should receive the death penalty and “suffer the ultimate price.”‘
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