To the Editor:

Re “Rampage Kills 11 at a Synagogue in Pittsburgh” (front page, Oct. 28):

Last Monday a new Holocaust memorial was dedicated in Philadelphia . I thought that another memorial to one of the 20th century’s greatest tragedies was not needed. On Saturday one of the deadliest anti-Semitic attacks on American soil occurred. I guess I was wrong.

Paul L. Newman

Merion Station, Pa.

To the Editor:

In demonizing “the other,” President Trump incites the acts of hate that he professes to deplore, such as the Pittsburgh synagogue shootings and the pipe bombs directed at political opponents.

He can express condemnation of such acts all he wants, but his calls for harsher punishments fail to address remedies that might actually work to prevent hate crimes: stricter screening for buyers of firearms and explosives and a toning down of his divisive rhetoric.

Mary Lewis Grow

Northfield, Minn.

To the Editor:

The first duty of government to its citizens is to safeguard them from acts of violence. Instead, President Trump suggests that worshiping Jews bear the responsibility and costs of hiring private armies to protect our people and our institutions.