A Jewish father shot his 9-year-old son before turning the gun on himself during a custody visit at Sunday at a New Hampshire YWCA. Muni Savyon, 54, had recently returned from his brother’s funeral in Israel and had confided in his friend and local Chabad Rabbi Levi Krinsky that he was suicidal. Still the shooting…
Six days after the funeral of six-year-old Noah Pozner, his family is taking stock of the gifts sent to them by strangers all over the world. There’s a stiff teddy bear in a brown overcoat and hat accompanied by a note from a woman who says the bear gave her great comfort when her mother…
The powerful gun rights lobby went on the offensive on Friday arguing that schools should have armed guards, on a day that Americans remembered the victims of the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre with a moment of silence. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,”…
Top rabbis from the Reform and Conservative movements will join an interfaith call for greater gun controls in the wake of last week’s school massacre in Connecticut. Rabbi David Saperstein, who directs the Reform movement’s Religious Action Center, and Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, who directs the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, will appear at a press conference…
At Monday’s funeral for six-year-old Noah Pozner, his uncle Alexis Haller delivered the following eulogy: On Friday, Dec. 14, we tragically lost a most beloved member of our family. Noah was a 6-year-old little boy, and he was so dear to all of our hearts. Words cannot express the unfathomable loss we feel. Noah was…
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