Jewish Identity

Carol Black is a member of New Light Congregation, a survivor of the October 27 attack, and a sister of Richard Gottfried, who was one of the 11 people killed in the attack.

Marlene Haus is a longtime member of Tree of Life Congregation and, at the time of the October 27 attack, had been one of the regular “Morning Minyanaires” who attend the daily prayer service each morning, as well as on the Sabbath and on Jewish holidays.

Barry Werber is a member of New Light Congregation and survivor of the October 27 attack. 

Rabbi Hazzan Jeffrey Myers is spiritual leader of Tree of Life Congregation and a survivor of the October 27 attack.

Dan Leger is a nurse, chaplain, and survivor of the October 27 attack. 

Leger received his nursing degree from the Community College of Allegheny County. He worked at the Children’s Institute as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War and was later a Pediatric Nurse at the Neurosurgical Department of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. Later in his career, he became a hospital chaplain.

Rabbi Keren Gorban was Associate Rabbi of Temple Sinai in Pittsburgh at the time of the October 27 attack and led a “Honeymoon Israel” trip in the weeks after the attack.

Martin S. “Marty” Gaynor is the E. J. Barone University Professor Of Economics And Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and a survivor of the October 27 attack.

Rabbi Doris Dyen is a rabbi and chaplain, a member of Congregation Dor Hadash, and spiritual leader of the independent havurah (prayer group) Makom HaLev. She was one of the people on the grounds of the Tree of Life synagogue at the time of the October 27 attack.

Walter Daniel “Wally” Caplan was raised in Jeannette, PA. in Westmoreland County and has lived most of his life in Greenberg, PA. aside from his college years at Penn State University.

Nina Butler is an educator who is active in several Jewish community organizations called upon to address local needs in the immediate aftermath of the October 27 attack. 

Kathleen Blee is the Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean in the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and a member of Congregation Dor Hadash. 

Leslie Aizenman was director of refugee services at JFCS-Pittsburgh, also known as Jewish Family and Community Services, at the time of the October 27, 2018 attack.

Rabbi Elisar Admon was a teacher at the Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh and a member of the Gesher Chaim Shel Emes chevra kadisha (burial society) at the time of the October 27 attack.