When Tali Cohn, 15, first heard about the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, she tried to put it out of her mind. Then someone texted to tell her that their new friend from summer camp Alyssa Alhadeff was a freshman at the school. And worse still, that Alhadeff, also 15,…
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida was on lockdown during the school shooting on Wednesday that left 17 people dead and many more wounded. But the outside world was able to learn what was happening in real time because of the Twitter posts of freshman Aidan Minoff. His tweets were shared thousands of…
A student at the Parkland, Florida public high school where a former student killed at least 17 people on Wednesday published a tweet that evening asking for prayers for his coach. “Can everyone please take a second to pray for my coach today he took serval bullets covering other students at Douglas,” Charlie Rothkopf tweeted….
Anguished Jewish parents reportedly gathered at a south Florida hotel awaiting word about teens missing after a deadly school shooting killed 17 people. Rabbi Avraham Friedman of Chabad Coral Springs told the Sun-Sentinel that he was tending to parents who “are in agony” after not hearing word from missing children a day after the massacre…
Florida Lawmakers are pushing to cancel Lorde’s scheduled concerts in the state after she cancelled her appearance in Israel to support the BDS movement, according to the Orlando Weekly. Florida is one of 20 states that have a law barring state funds from doing business with entities associated with BDS, the movement to boycott, divest,…
A man and women suspected of killing Florida State University professor and legal scholar Dan Markel are facing new charges, Tallahassee ABC affiliate WTXL reported Katherine Magbanua and Sigfredo Garcia are already indicted for Markel’s July 2014 murder. Investigators have suggested that the two were hired as contract killers. Now the Florida state attorney’s office…
A bill to put the phrase “In God We Trust” in a “conspicuous place” in every public school in Florida is moving through the state legislature, Religion News Service reported. The phrase is the official motto of the United States and the state of Florida. It appears on the Florida state flag, which already flies…
Florida is one of 20 U.S. states that have already enacted measures to confront companies that boycott Israel. Now, the Tallahassee Democrat is reporting that state legislatures are poised to toughen the already existing anti-BDS law, making it even harder for companies to do business with Florida if they chose to boycott Israel. The new…
100% of profits support our journalism
