In your lifetime, during your days

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THERE WERE silver linings, of course. A small mountain of flowers, candles and messages of love and sympathy on a street corner two blocks away. Thousands thronging an interfaith service one night later. Wasiullah Mohamed, director of the Islamic Centre of Pittsburgh, telling his city's Jewish community, "We just want to know what you need...If it's people outside your next service protecting you, let us know. We'll be there." But behind those linings, the cloud remained. During Shabbat services on the morning of October 27th, a man armed with an assault rifle and three handguns walked into the Tree of Life Congregation, a 154-year-old synagogue in Squirrel Hill, the heart of Jewish Pittsburgh, and shouted "All Jews must die!" He then murdered u Jews and wounded six more people in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history. The shooting's sole suspect is Robert Bowers, a 46-year-old whose social-media posts reveal an obsessive hatred of Jews. The massacre occurred a day after Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old, was arrested in Florida, suspected of posting pipe-bombs to critics of President Donald Trump. Mr Sayoc owned a white van festooned with pro-Trump stickers; he attended at least one Trump rally, where he waved a sign reading "CNN Sucks" (he is alleged to have sent bombs to the news network).