Joshua Stepakoff was just 6 years old when he was shot and wounded in a 1999 shooting rampage at his suburban Los Angeles preschool. Now 19, he wants to know why more hasn’t been done to curb gun violence in America. “If now is not the right time, when is? People are shot every day……
People in the small Connecticut community of Newtown grieved on Saturday over one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history and police sought answers about what drove a 20-year-old gunman to slaughter 20 children at an elementary school. The attacker, identified by law enforcement sources as Adam Lanza, opened fire on Friday morning at…
The peace and security of the suburban Connecticut community of Newtown lay shattered on Friday after a gunman attacked a primary school in one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. Tearful parents and children gathered around Sandy Hook Elementary School by midday on Friday, surrounded by police vehicles, as young and old alike…
Rabbi Shaul Praver of the local congregation Adath Israel was among the leaders in Newtown, Conn., who rushed to console victims of one of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Praver rushed to console families and children gathered at the city’s firehouse hours after the school shooting, which left 27 dead including the suspect….
Former Democrat Joe Lieberman used his last speech on the U.S. Senate floor on Wednesday to call for bipartisanship and get in a last dig over the controversial result of the 2000 election, when he was the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Lieberman, 70, announced in January 2011 that he would retire when his fourth term…
When the tree crashed against the house and spilled its leafy branches across the driveway, it came to a crunching stop on top of my car, taking down power lines along the way. I couldn’t get very close in the dark confusion of the storm, but the next day, after a man with a chain…
Unknown vandals overturned about 40 gravestones at a Jewish cemetery in Hartford, Conn. The damage at the Congregation Ados Beth Israel Cemetery took place sometime between Oct. 12 and Oct. 19, according to the Associated Press. The attack was discovered by a man who regularly visits the grave of his son, who was killed while…
A historic synagogue in Connecticut was seriously damaged by a fire. The two Torah scrolls housed at the Hebrew Congregation of Woodmont in Milford, Conn., were saved, though they were damaged. Rabbi Schneur Wilhelm, spiritual leader of the congregation, told the Hartford Courant that he believes the Torah scrolls are salvageable. The cause of the…
