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Four and a half years ago, a gunman invaded the Tree of Life synagogue on a Sabbath morning and killed 11 worshippers from the three congregations that shared the building. The shooting was the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.
Years after the horrific mass shooting in 2018, Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue aims to rebuild with a new design to “balance the light with the darkness.”
Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip 
 for the coming week. Pittsburgh native and New York-based director Trish Adlesic has made films in Western Pennsylvania before — she was a producer on HBO’s 2010 fracking documentary “Gasland” and 2013’s “Gasland Part II” — but she
"‘A Tree of Life’ was made with the sacred memory of the victims and the lives of the survivors at the center of every production and artistic decision."
“We used to say in rabbinical school that we’re all secretly Reconstructionist Jews."