(JTA) — Jewish groups responded to the mass shooting in Las Vegas by condemning the violence and calling for gun control legislation. At least 58 people are dead and more than 500 wounded in the attack at a country music festival outside the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Strip late Sunday night. It is…
Rabbi Levi Harlig journeyed to a Las Vegas hospital Monday on a mission of mercy for one of the hundreds of victims of Sunday night’s massacre on the city’s famed Strip. Harlig sat and sang Jewish songs with the husband and mother-in-law of Natalie Grumet, a Jewish California resident who was injured in the shooting…
When Dr. Avi Rivkind landed in Las Vegas three years ago to lecture as a trauma care expert, he saw something that troubled him. The airport, McCarran International, felt too open, almost exposed. He felt no less comfortable on the city’s Strip while watching crowds flow from hotels to casinos to shops to the street…
As Americans process the horrific Sunday night shooting in Las Vegas, one rabbi has put pen to paper, writing a protest prayer-poem about gun violence. Titled “Unetaneh Tokef for America,” Rabbi Douglas Sagal’s poem protests the inability of politicians to pass gun control – and links to it a deadly epidemic of a firearms violence….
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…
The daughter of the longtime superintendent of a prominent Manhattan synagogue was among the more than 500 people wounded in the mass shooting at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas on Monday night. Kehilath Jeshurun, the Upper East Side Modern Orthodox congregation, said Monday that Samantha Arjune, the daughter of beloved former staffer Rudy…
Israel’s consul general in Los Angeles arrived in Las Vegas in search of eight Israelis in the city who have not been heard from since the massacre at the Mandalay Bay casino on Sunday, the Times of Israel reported. Avner Saban, Israel’s consul general in Los Angeles, traveled to Las Vegas Monday morning. He earlier…
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