Funeral held for oldest victim of Pittsburgh synagogue attack

PITTSBURGH — A 97-year-old woman who was the oldest victim of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre was laid to rest Friday at the end of a wrenching, weeklong series of funerals.

Meanwhile, the three congregations attacked at the synagogue plan to gather for a joint service Saturday, while a prayer vigil is planned outside their desecrated worship space to mark the time of the massacre one week earlier.

“We will reopen, but it will not be for quite a while,” Rabbi Jeffrey Myers said Friday, as he prepared for the last funeral service for Rose Mallinger. Myers himself survived the attack that began just as Shabbat services got under way. In the end, 11 people were gunned down in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history.