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…
Saturday was the last day of Passover — one of the four times during the yearly cycle of holidays that Jews recite Yizkor, the prayer for the dead and for martyrs. There were several dozen people in attendance for the service at the Chabad of Poway, the only Orthodox synagogue in northern suburbs of San…
(JTA) — The 19-year-old alleged gunman at a Poway, California synagogue lives with his parents and said in a manifesto that he thinks that Jews are planning to take over the world. John Earnest also claimed that he set fire to a mosque in Escondido, California in the weeks after the shooting at two mosques…
POWAY, California (JTA) — Lori Gilbert-Kaye will be memorialized at the synagogue where she was shot to death during Saturday morning services in what’s being called a hate crime. The memorial will take place at 2 p.m. Monday, Pacific time, at Chabad of Poway, in this town north of San Diego. A short graveside service…
