This story contains spoilers for The Pitt season 2, episode 3. On October 27, 2018, a man named Robert Bowers entered Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue, then shot and killed eleven of its congregants. The horrific act of antisemitism was—and still is—an unfathomable tragedy, one that was hardly the first or last of its kind in this country. It devastated three congregations—Tree of Life, Dor Hadash, and the New Light Congregation—as well as the city of Pittsburgh and the entire Jewish community.
