This is the Forward’s coverage of shootings involving or impacting Jews, many of which are motivated by antisemitism.
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Fast Forward Jewish Inmate Charged With Threatening To Shoot Up Synagogue
A Jewish felon has a new criminal charge for a comment he allegedly made in jail about “shooting up” a synagogue, police said. Justin M. Cabral, 30, of South Glens Falls, New York, was charged with making a terroristic threat after inmates and corrections officers at the Warren County Jail heard him make a comment…
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Fast Forward ‘I Got The Jew!’ Lunatic Causes Shooting Panic in Manhattan Movie Theatre
Panic struck a Manhattan movie theatre on Sunday night when a man burst into the room yelling about guns, New York Post reported. Anthony Powell, 34, allegedly screamed, “people with guns were killing people in the theater,” when he entered the Regal Union Square Movie Stadium around 11:30 pm. One frightened man reportedly jumped from…
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Fast Forward Parkland Sheriff Scott Israel At Center Of Alt-Right Hoax After Shooting
Sheriff Scott Israel, of Parkland, Florida, has found himself at the center of a hoax perpetuated by the far right, POLITICO reported. Israel came into the national spotlight after the shooting, which left 17 people dead. Israel’s police department has been accused of ignoring the warning signs that the shooter, Nikolas Cruz, was a threat….
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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 Heavily Jewish Parkland Was Florida’s ‘Safest City’ — Until School Gunman Struck
Michele Roseman was convinced that she had found a safe place to raise her children when she came to Parkland, Florida, in 2000. She was stunned when one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history unfolded in her adopted town. “I moved so my kids could go to one of the best schools in…
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Fast Forward Florida Student Charlie Rothkopf Asks For Prayers For Hero Coach Aaron Feis
A student at the Parkland, Florida public high school where a former student killed at least 17 people on Wednesday published a tweet that evening asking for prayers for his coach. “Can everyone please take a second to pray for my coach today he took serval bullets covering other students at Douglas,” Charlie Rothkopf tweeted….
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News How Jewish Family Of Sandy Hook Victim Was Driven Out Of Boca Raton
Lenny Pozner says 'new chapter' turned into a nightmare amid harassment by a police detective
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News How Natalie Grumet Stumbled Upon A Stranger Who Saved Her Life In Las Vegas Massacre
If Natalie Grumet had not sought refuge in the Tropicana Hotel after being shot in the Las Vegas massacre last week, she may not have escaped with her life. Grumet and her friend, who was also shot, happened to bang on the door of a laundry room where Dr. Larry Bohlen and his wife Laura,…
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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