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At 6 she lost her best friend in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. At 7, she’s still struggling with trauma.
This week marks one year since 11 people were killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood, by a suspect who had railed against Jews online.
While the 11 victims were older Jews — the youngest was 54, the oldest was 97 — young Jews have also been deeply scarred as they mourn both loved ones and strangers.
Julia Reinstein wrote about the scars of young Jews. Scars like those of Joyce Fienberg’s great-niece. When Fienberg, 75, was killed in the shooting her death left her 7-year-old great-niece broken and unsure how to comprehend the loss of her best friend.
In school, she stopped paying attention. She told her mother, “I have dreams during the day about bad guys shooting people.”
The young girl is just one of countless children in Pittsburgh and beyond who, at a formative time in their lives, have been traumatized by a massacre designed to make them afraid to be Jewish. Read Reinstein’s extraordinary report.
Maddie McGarvey / BuzzFeed News STAYING ON TOP OF THIS Republicans have no problem with the White House leaving information out of the transcript of Trump’s call with Ukraine
Earlier this week, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman of the National Security Council told House impeachment investigators that the public version of the transcript detailing the controversial call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s president omitted some important details.
Yesterday, House Republicans brushed off the idea that the transcript was incomplete, with many of them pivoting to the line they’ve been echoing for weeks: “There was no quid pro quo.”
One Republican told us, “I’ve read the reports, and let me just tell you — it’s a nothingburger.” IMPEACHMENT TODAY
In today's episode, the ghost prosecutors general of Ukraine haunting Trump. Two names you should know: Viktor Shokin and Yuriy Lutsenko. Both are former top prosecutors in Ukraine, and both key players in the impeachment saga. Listen to Impeachment Today. SNAPSHOTS As the Amazon burned, gun sales increased. The Amazon has long had high rates of violence due in large part to conflicts over land. Our analysis shows that new gun sales have risen sharply in Brazil’s Amazon region under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
Twitter banned political ads as it turns up the heat on Facebook. The company says the broad ban will cover ads about specific candidates and issues. Twitter’s move comes as Facebook has faced heavy criticism for hosting political ads, which permit candidates to lie.
Apple’s new AirPods Pro have better sound, fit, and noise cancellation — but not battery life or price. AirPods are the best selling headphones in the world. Nicole Nguyen reviews the newly-introduced AirPods Pro: “If Apple’s original AirPods fit you well, and you use them for running or other activities where you don’t need noise-canceling, I don’t see a reason to upgrade.”
Obama said publicly shaming people on Twitter is “not activism.” Former president Barack Obama discussed the dangers of callout culture at an event, cautioning young people against the idea that activism is “to be as judgmental as possible” about others.
CHANGE OF PLANS Chile just pulled out of hosting the biggest climate conference of the year because of mass protests
The 2019 UN Climate Change Conference, called COP25, was supposed to take place in December in Santiago, Chile. It’s a massive, significant conference — thousands of government officials, business leaders, and activists from around the world were planning to attend.
Its future is up in the air, as Chile announced it would no longer host the conference amid growing civil unrest.
Earlier in October, Chile declared a state of emergency across parts of the country due to a surge of anti-government protests.
This is the second country to withdraw from hosting the 2019 climate conference. Brazil, the original host, abandoned its plans after Bolsonaro was elected president.
Rodrigo Garrido / Reuters EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN Disney just revealed a first look at the Lizzie McGuire reboot and it’s going to be a good time
By now, you probably knew that Disney is rebooting Lizzie McGuire because that’s just what we do now, we reboot things from your childhood, because why take risks.
The reboot will follow Lizzie as a 30-year-old living in New York, and it started shooting this week. So yesterday, Disney surprised everyone by sharing some early sneak peeks. I, for one, have questions:
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