The Facebook page of the synagogue near San Diego that was the site of a shooting quickly became the virtual equivalent of those makeshift memorials that materialize after tragedies. The page quickly accumulated condolences and expressions of sympathy and solidarity from all over the San Diego area, and the world. A message from Mickael Szerman…
The San Diego rabbi who was shot in the hand during Shabbat services — but insisted on finishing his sermon — has also served as the county’s police chaplain. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein is a rabbi with the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement, which emphasizes outreach and education to other Jews, and as chaplain tended to the “spiritual…
Update, April 27, 11:09 p.m.: This version of the story includes information on shooter drills the Poway Chabad congregation recently did. The shooter at a San Diego-area synagogue praised the man who attacked a Pittsburgh synagogue exactly six months ago, but the carnage in San Diego would have been worse but for safety and shooter…
The suspect in the shooting at a synagogue in Poway, California is a 19-year-old white man named John Earnest, San Diego County Sheriff William Gore confirmed Saturday. Gore also confirmed that an “open letter” was being investigated. A manifesto published in his name was published on Saturday morning on 8chan, an online message board popular…
(JTA) — A Hilton hotel in Southern California reportedly has canceled a Passover trip for 700 New Yorkers, despite a $1 million deposit, the organizer said. The New York Post’s Page Six reported Wednesday that the 10-day trip to the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines in San Diego was booked in November, according to the organizer,…
As vandals target Jewish cemeteries and community centers, Jews at the University of San Diego have also been on the receiving end of hate crimes, with numerous swastikas discovered on campus over the past month. “Defacing our facilities with this deplorable symbol is hateful and reprehensible, and the incidents are being investigated,” the university’s dean…
Everyone loves lists. Lists are fun and informative, and ranked lists in particular help us make decisions more efficiently. But lists are also deceptively powerful: it’s really hard for a person to properly judge the objective value of something distinct from its ranking once they’ve seen it on a ranked list, whether that “something” is…
For the second year in a row, San Diego State University, my campus, has been called an unsafe place to be Jewish. In 2015, David Horowitz listed SDSU as the “sixth most anti-Semitic campus” in the United States. This year, The Algemeiner’s first annual list of the “40 Worst Campuses for Jewish Students” in Canada…
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