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Pittsburgh Shooting: Answering Questions about the Service

This morning, a shooter entered a synagogue in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and killed many people attending a service, then shot several police officers there to stop him. The story is still evolving and I am sure there are plenty of news sources better qualified to provide the details of the event. I can tell you that I do not personally know anyone who attends that synagogue, but a friend of friends is currently (8PM Saturday) unaccounted for and may have been one of the victims. In the news stories I have heard, I have noticed a lot of confusion about the service where the shooting occurred. Was it a baby naming service? Why weren't there any children there? Why did someone say that there would have been more victims if the shooter came later? I would like to clarify these issues. What kind of service was this? The service where the shooting occurred was a normal Shabbat (sabbath) service, the same kind of service that most synagogues have every Saturday morning (some synag