California Governor Gavin Newsom is proposing to earmark $15 million in his next budget to supporting security efforts at places of worship, the Los Angeles Times reported. The announcement came on the same day that Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the rabbi injured in the attack on Chabad of Poway Saturday, said that increased support for funding…
Chabad of Poway, where three people were injured and one killed in a shooting Saturday, wanted armed security guards but couldn’t afford it, its rabbi told TIME Magazine. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, whose hands were damaged during the attack, said that he had been fearful of an attack on his synagogue in the wake of the…
Updated May 6 After the shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue, which killed one person and injured three more, people from around the world expressed their condolences to the shaken community. Many have been asking how they can help. The synagogue itself, in cooperation with the global Chabad-Lubavitch movement, has set up a fundraiser…
Jonathan Morales, the off-duty Border Patrol agent whose quick actions likely saved lives in the Chabad of Poway synagogue shooting, was on a journey of rediscovering his Jewish heritage and brought his weapon to pray after being urged to do so by the rabbi, the Times of Israel reported. “Morales recently discovered his Jewish roots,”…
POWAY, California (JTA) — Poway’s mayor said preparations made in the aftermath of the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue “contributed to saving lives” in his hometown. On Saturday, a gunman entered Chabad of Poway, killing Lori Gilbert-Kaye, a 60-year-old congregant, and injuring three others, including Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the congregation’s spiritual leader. Following the October…
Two days after a 19-year-old white supremacist stormed a synagogue in California, security experts are calling on synagogues to guard their doors. That’s a bitter pill to swallow for many American synagogues, for which open doors have been all but an article of faith. But in the wake of two deadly synagogue attacks just six…
The family of the gunman allegedly behind the fatal shooting at a synagogue in Poway, California released a statement on Monday expressing their “great shame” in his actions. “We are shocked and deeply saddened by the terrible attack on the Chabad of Poway synagogue,” the statement read. “But our sadness pales in comparison to the…
The F.B.I. received tips about the Poway synagogue shooting minutes before it occurred but was too late to react before the attack began, BuzzFeed News reported Monday. A user named Colin said that he saw the shooter’s manifesto on 8chan, an online message board popular with white nationalists, at around 11:05 a.m. Pacific time. “I…
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