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Judge Robert Colville dismissed the jury on Wednesday and told jurors to return on Thursday to hear closing arguments, after which the jury will deliberate and deliver its verdict.

The man accused of killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue shooting is facing dozens of federal charges.

The alleged shooter is just the fourth person in Western Pennsylvania to ever face a federal death penalty. None of other three were executed.

If jurors decide Bowers is guilty of the crimes he faces, they will then determine whether he spends the rest of his life in prison or be executed by lethal injection.

The trial threatens to broadcast the white supremacist ideas that lay behind the attack, and continue to pose risks for Jewish communities.

Lena Epstein, who was raised Jewish, made the comments at a candidate forum at a Baptist church in Holland, Michigan.

Carole Zawatsky, a longtime veteran in Jewish nonprofit leadership, was announced as the first new Tree of Life CEO.

Jewish Federations launched last year a $130 million LiveSecure initiative, the largest security campaign in the history of the North American Jewish community.

If there can be any consolation in this story, it can be read in the faces of his family, as they listen to community members who remember the brothers with great affection.

The trailer for the upcoming film features parts of interviews of people who were at the scene at the time, which will be aired in full once the documentary premiers.