Saturday, October 27, 2018, when a white supremacist charged a synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa., killing 11 worshippers, Denverite Adam Moskowitz was at a JNF national conference in Phoenix. When Shabbat ended, Moskowitz logged into Facebook and saw that the only people commenting on the shooting were Jews. In his feed, he says he didn’t see one non-Jew post anything about Pittsburgh, or change their profile picture, which is common practice after a mass attack. “It struck me,” he recently told the Intermountain Jewish News. “Jews care about Jews. It’s not that other people don’t care. It’s that they don’t even know if they know a Jew. Unless someone is part of a black hat [haredi] community, or wears a kippah or tzizit, no one knows […]
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