This is the Forward’s coverage of shootings involving or impacting Jews, many of which are motivated by antisemitism.
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Opinion Dan Markel’s Meaningful Life Ends in Senseless Death
There was a time, not too long ago, when what we wanted were explanations. Religion, philosophy, art – these were meant to tell us how things fit together, how they made sense. Even today, many of us — religious, secular, spiritual-but-not-religious — hold to this view. “It was meant to be.” “God works in mysterious…
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Fast Forward Utah Man Gets 5 Years for Shooting at Salt Lake City Synagogue
A Utah man was sentenced to five years in prison on Tuesday for shooting into an unoccupied synagogue in Salt Lake City in what federal authorities said was an attack motivated by religious bias. Macon Openshaw, 22, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Utah in April to the civil rights violation of damaging the…
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Fast Forward Kansas City Jewish Center Shooting Victim Joins in Anti-Gun Suit
A man who came under fire during the deadly assault on a suburban Kansas City JCC joined a lawsuit against a state law that makes it a felony for federal officials to enforce certain gun laws. Paul Temme joined the lawsuit filed Wednesday by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence fighting, KCTV 5 News…
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Fast Forward Brussels Jewish Museum Suspect Extradition Is Approved by French Court
A French court on Thursday approved the extradition to Belgium of the French suspect in a May 24 shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that left four people dead. Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, has been held in police custody on anti-terror laws on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and possession of weapons in relation to…
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Fast Forward Belgium Spends $4M To Boost Jewish Security
The Belgian government will earmark up to $4 million for improving security around Jewish buildings, a Brussels-based daily reported. The funding is part of the Belgian federal government’s plan to shoulder security costs for the Jewish community following the May 24 murder of four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in the capital’s center,…
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Fast Forward Were Las Vegas Suicide Pact Couple Neo-Nazis?
Law enforcement officials are looking into whether a man and woman who killed two Las Vegas police officers and a third person before killing themselves Sunday had links to the white supremacy movement, according to a report on Monday. The Las Vegas Review-Journal, citing city law enforcement sources, said investigators discovered paraphernalia associated with white…
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Fast Forward Brussels Museum Shooting Suspect Arrested in France
French police have arrested a man suspected of involvement in the shooting deaths last weekend of three people at Brussels’ Jewish Museum, officials said on Sunday. The 29-year-old was arrested in the southern French city of Marseille on Friday and had a Kalashnikov and another gun with him, a French police source said. The man,…
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Fast Forward Brussels May Be Lying About Museum Shootings, Professor Claims
A Swiss professor wrote on Facebook that Belgian officials may be part of a conspiracy to falsely present the Brussels Jewish museum shootings as anti-Semitic. Tariq Ramadan, a Geneva-based lecturer on Contemporary Islamic issues at Oxford University in Britain, speculated on Tuesday that the slaying of four people last week at the Jewish Museum of…
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