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 Israeli Couple Shot Dead While Driving Through West Bank
An Israeli couple was shot dead while driving through the occupied West Bank late on Thursday and Israeli forces were searching the area for the suspected Palestinian attackers, authorities said. The couple’s four children, aged between four-months and nine-years old, were also in the car but were unharmed when the gunman opened fire near the…
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Opinion What Is a Jewish Response to Virginia On-Air Gun Killings?
Every time a senseless shooting happens, as it did yet again this week in Roanoke, Virginia, liberals ask the question Bob Dylan posed more than 50 years ago: “How many deaths will it take till he knows/That too many people have died?” The answer, however, to preventing attacks like the one that killed reporter Alison…
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The Schmooze Chuck Schumer and Cousin Amy Schumer Team Up Against Gun Violence
So, am I the only one who hadn’t realized that Amy Schumer and U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer were related? Apparently, the two are . Which is great, because they’re reportedly teaming up to try and get politicians interested in curbing gun violence. It all started when Schumer (Amy) received an open letter from Sarah Clements,…
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Opinion This Is Not My Charleston
JTA) — The unspeakable murder of nine accomplished, beloved and respected African-American Charlestonians of faith in their own church on Wednesday has hit our city like an earthquake. These murders occurred in my neighborhood, across the street from Buist Academy, the public magnet school my daughter and son attended with their white, black and Hispanic classmates….
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News Charleston Jews Join Vigil For Church Shooting Victims
The brutal shooting of on Wednesday night has stunned Charleston’s Jewish community. “We’re always on alert when there’s a hate act,” said Judi Corsaro, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Charleston, South Carolina, adding that there was very little reason for the Jewish community to suspect a rise in anti-Semitism. Last night, she said, was…
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Fast Forward White Supremacist To Be Arraigned For Jewish Kansas City Shooting
A Missouri white supremacist is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday afternoon on charges that he fatally shot three people outside two Jewish centers in a Kansas City suburb last April. Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., 74, is expected to enter a plea to three charges of capital murder and three charges of attempted murder in…
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Culture Bullets Fired at Paris Kosher Restaurant
A kosher restaurant in Paris was fired on in an attack that is similar to one on a Paris synagogue days earlier. Bullet holes were discovered Wednesday in the window of the Al Haeche kosher restaurant located in the 19th district of northeastern Paris. The attack reportedly occurred Tuesday night, the JSSNews website reported. The…
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Fast Forward Stabbed Chabad Rabbinic Student Improves
The condition of the Israeli rabbinical student who was stabbed at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in Brooklyn was upgraded. Levi Rosenblatt, 22, who was stabbed in the neck and head on Tuesday while praying, was upgraded from critical to serious but stable condition, though he remains confused about why he is in the hospital, the New York…
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