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Inside the efforts to build a Tree of Life memorial

The nonprofit overseeing the redevelopment of the site the 2018 Pittsburgh shooting has employed a team of lobbyists to secure funding for the massive museum-memorial complex it hopes to break ground on next year

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People pay their respects at a memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue following the shooting that left 11 people dead in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, two days after the attack, on October 29, 2018.

Nearly four years after 11 people were killed in a mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, the congregation remains shuttered. A nonprofit that is redeveloping the Tree of Life site wants to see to it that worshippers...

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