Josh Shapiro recounts arson terror but does not back Schumer's call for federal hate crime investigation

(JTA) - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro revealed on Thursday that investigators had managed to retrieve ritual Passover items from the dining room that was heavily damaged by an arsonist's fire shortly after his family's seder on Saturday night.

"Some just required a dusting and a cleaning," he said outside a Harrisburg firehouse where he and his wife Lori were serving lunch to first responders who rescued his family and doused the flames early Sunday morning. "Others are destroyed."

Shapiro, one of the most prominent Jews in politics, said he and his family had concluded the public seder aroun...