‘A very special person:’ Toronto native Joyce Fienberg killed in Pittsburgh
TORONTO — A woman who grew up in Toronto and celebrated many of life’s milestones at the city’s oldest Jewish temple is being remembered as a “very special person.”
Joyce Fienberg, 75, was one of 11 people killed when authorities said a gunman expressing hatred of Jews opened fire on worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday.
Fienberg spent most of her career as a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh, retiring in 2008 from her job studying learning in the classroom and in museums.
But before that she was a member of the Holy Blossom Temple community in north Toronto, where a photo of her as a teen still adorns the temple’s “wall of honour.”