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 One of San Bernardino Shooting Victims Was Messianic Jew
One of the victims of Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, California has been identified as a Messianic Jew. Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, was a health department worker and colleague of the suspected shooter. Thalasinos was gunned down along with 13 others during a work holiday party. In a phone interview with The New York Times,…
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Fast Forward Suspect Arrested in West Bank Shooting that Killed Father and Son
Israel’s Shin Bet security service arrested a suspect in the West Bank shooting that left a man and his son dead on the eve of his daughter’s wedding. The suspect was arrested over the weekend in the attack on a family car traveling near the West Bank settlement of Otniel, about 10 miles from Hebron….
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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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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 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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