Center Supports Yad Vashem Statement on Deadly Attack on Pittsburgh Synagogue -- Vigil in Boone The Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies fully supports Yad Vashem's statement on the deadly anti-Semitic attack by a European-American Neo-Nazi and white supremacist on Squirrel Hill's main synagogue during Saturday's Shabbat services. Read the entire statement here. There will be a vigil in Boone on October 29. Read the press release here.We urge everyone to attend.