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News Gabby Giffords’ bat mitzvah was as joyous and tearful as you’d expect
As former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords stood before the congregation of Temple Chaverim in Tucson, Ariz., and kissed her tallit, preparing to chant from the Torah for her bat mitzvah, Rabbi Stephanie Aaron placed her hand atop Giffords’ hand, her voice rising and falling along with Giffords’ own. It was an emotional moment two decades…
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Fast Forward Arizona’s special senate race could keep Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat empty
A special senate race to fill the late Republican Sen. John McCain’s seat in Arizona could be the tipping point in the fight over confirming a Supreme Court Justice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Democrat Mark Kelly, the former astronaut and husband of ex-Rep Gabby Giffords, who is Jewish, is likely to win a…
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News Jewish gun control activists take center stage at Democratic Convention
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Gabby Giffords, the Jewish congresswoman was shot by an assailant in the head in 2011 and who became a leader in the gun control movement, opened the third night of the Democratic convention with an appeal to elect Joe Biden president. “We can let the shooting continue or we can act,” Giffords…
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Fast Forward Republican Congressman Mocks Gabby Giffords With Gun At Town Hall Meeting
A pro-gun Republican congressman mocked wounded ex-Rep. Gabby Giffords by brandishing a loaded handgun at a meeting with constituents in his South Carolina district — and suggesting she could have done more to protect herself. Rep. Ralph Norman reportedly pulled out the licensed .38-caliber weapon on a table and suggested that Giffords could have avoided…
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Fast Forward Gabby Giffords Calls For Stricter Gun Laws After Las Vegas Mass Shooting
Gabby Giffords, the ex-Arizona congresswoman maimed in a grisly Tucson shooting, pled on Monday for stricter federal gun laws after an armed assault left at least 58 people dead Sunday night in Las Vegas. “The nation’s counting on you,” she said in a press conference in front of the United States Capitol, in brief comments…
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Fast Forward U.S. Navy Names Ship For Gabby Giffords
(JTA) — A United States Navy warship named for Gabby Giffords will be put to sea next week. The ship will be officially named Gabrielle Giffords in honor of the Arizona Democratic congresswoman who survived a 2011 gunshot wound to the head. It will be the first Navy ship named after a living woman in 160…
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Breaking News Gabby Giffords Backs Hillary Clinton — Cites Record on Gun Control
Gabby Giffords, the former Arizona congresswoman who was shot and wounded in a 2011 shooting rampage, has endorsed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary fight, citing rival Bernie Sanders’s soft record on gun control. Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, said in a statement to CNN that Hillary Clinton is “the candidate for…
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