and he is, was the kindest, most loving, caring person. joining me now, msnbc analyst howard fineman, my friend, my colleague, howard is a pittsburgh native, he grew up attending services at tree of life synagogue where his parents taught sunday school and he was bat mitzvahed. his opinion pieces appear in the new york times and wall street journal. our hearts are grieving with pittsburgh and i think it affects all americans and certainly those of us who grew up in synagogues, who understand the grief of this congregation, i think. lou, first to you, tell me how pittsburgh and you yourself are dealing with it. well, first of all thank you
much younger than me. certainly you re at that age over there, rebecca. did your parents say get up and get to church? did they say yeah. the family was a little bit more center add round because your father was a minister. well, my father was a minister. that helps. it was kind of emed bedded rebecca, were you pushed off to church or temple in the morning? you know, i wasn t. i was bat mitzvahed. but i grew up in a very secular family. that i think i ve become even more that way as i ve grown older. you had no choice. you get to choice it s late, it s 8:30, ten minutes to get here. then my very youngest brothers, there are five of us, i found out later on when i got back from africa in the peace corps, they were sneaking off to duchkin donuts sunday morning and their only concern was they had sugar powder on them that gave them away. my two older closer in age brothers and i wouldn t think of not going. now our own kids we would push them to go but after a wh
kind of there s this backlash against institutions in general. and religion is a big carol, is this like no one wants the tv show, when it s on they want to watch at that time their convenience two or three days later. xfinity, let s watch homeland later, not on the can t. i can t go to church 8:30 sunday morning. i m going to dial it up tuesday around 8:30 after supper. is that it? there s an element of that. but i think if you look at generations, families have changed too. when i was growing up it was we all went to church on the weekend did your parents you re much younger than me. certainly you re at that age over there, rebecca. did your parents say get up and get to church? did they say yeah. the family was a little bit more center add round because your father was a minister. well, my father was a minister. that helps. it was kind of embedded rebecca, were you pushed off to church or temple in the morning? you know, i wasn t. i was bat mitz