Pittsburgh Post-Gazette publishes incredibly powerful tribute to synagogue shooting victims

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is honoring the victims of last week's horrific synagogue shooting with a powerful show of solidarity.

The front page of Friday's newspaper features the first words of the Kaddish, a Jewish mourner's prayer often recited during funerals and memorial services. The Hebrew headline, which translates to "Magnified and sanctified be Your name," accompanies a photo taken on the third day of memorial services for the 11 people shot at the Tree of Life synagogue last Saturday.

The Kaddish, the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette notes, will be read Friday evening at the start of the first Sabbath since the tragedy, which took place during Shabbat services. The New York Times' Jodi Kantor praised the cover as the "ultimate tribute to the victims," as it sends "a statement that Jews belong." There have been a number of other anti-Semitic incidents since the shooting: a Brooklyn event was canceled Thursday night after a threat was graffitied onto a synagogue, reports the New York Post, and a California synagogue was similarly vandalized on Wednesday, reports CNN.

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The Post-Gazette reports that synagogues in Pittsburgh and across the country this weekend will be participating in a campaign to encourage people of all faiths to attend Shabbat services in a show of "strength and love against hate.”