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Culture How Ted Cruz’s bizarre suggestion made ‘Triangle Shirtwaist Elementary’ a thing.
The Texas senator said that fewer doors could have prevented the massacre in Texas; Twitter responded with memories of the 1911 tragedy
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News ‘Never felt a pain quite like this’: Jews react to Texas school shooting
With 21 people dead, including 19 children, Tuesday’s mass shooting was the worst at a school since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Jewish School Installs Bullet-Resistant Doors To Thwart Would-Be Shooters
(JTA) — An Orthodox girls’ school in Brooklyn has installed bullet-resistant classroom doors to keep out shooters. Bnos Menachem in the heavily Hasidic Crown Heights neighborhood is the first of more than 50 Jewish schools and synagogues in Brooklyn to have the 150-pound metal doors installed by an Israel-based manufacturer, the New York Post reported…
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Community Should Teachers Be Expected To Take Bullets For Their Students?
The day after the Parkland massacre, one of my high school students asked me if I would take a bullet for him. We’d been discussing the shooting — I offered a freewheeling, no judging, no holds barred discussion — and someone brought up the excruciating heroics of Scott Beigel and Aaron Feis, a teacher and…
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Fast Forward Chabad Rabbis Advocate For School ‘Moment of Silence’ After Florida Shooting
Local Chabad rabbis used a meeting Monday morning with Florida governor Rick Scott to advocate for a mandated daily “moment of silence” in public schools in the wake of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, according to Chabad.org. Rabbis from Chabad outposts near Parkland, Florida, where a teenaged gunman killed 17 people at…
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Community I’m A School Psychologist — And I Think Teachers Should Be Armed.
I’ve been a School Psychologist for the past 20 years. In the wake of the school shootings in Florida, I am brought right back to December 7, 2017, the day of the deadly mass shooting at the high school I currently serve. In the aftermath, I helped to counsel students through the trauma caused by…
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Fast Forward Mom Of Jewish School Shooting Victim Begs Trump: ‘Do Something’
(JTA) — The mother of a 14-year-old Jewish girl killed in a shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida, has a heartbreaking but powerful message for President Donald Trump. Alyssa Alhadeff was among the 17 people killed when a gunman entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon and began shooting. At…
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