Despite the distance, Dor Hadash Rabbi Amy Bardack saw a thematic parallel between the trial and his time in the West Bank.
Seann Pietila, 19, discussed his plans to stage a mass shooting in private messages on Instagram, according to documents filed last week.
A jury has found Robert Bowers guilty of federal hate crimes for killing 11 worshippers at a synagogue in the deadliest antisemitic attack in US history.
The free exercise of religious beliefs “does not include the engagement in good works or conduct that may or may not be part of religious belief,” she said.
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.
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