This is the Forward’s coverage of shootings involving or impacting Jews, many of which are motivated by antisemitism.
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News A Florida Jewish community turns out for police officer, 28, killed on duty in ‘Shabbos Park’
Local law enforcement officers and residents of Emerald Hills, a predominantly Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Hollywood, Florida, gathered to remember slain Hollywood Police Officer Yandy Chirino. Days earlier, Chirino was shot and killed while confronting an 18-year-old accused of stealing items from cars. The residents of Emerald Hills, a tight-knit community that boasts a close…
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Community After the Boulder shooting, I ask the Four Questions
Yesterday afternoon, I learned of an active shooter at Kings Soopers Supermarket from a 9 year-old. Yes — a 9 year-old boy who had been on his mom’s iPad playing games when the Huff Post alert crossed the screen. Later in the afternoon when talking with a parent, she said her child seemed less shocked…
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Fast Forward Boulder Jewish community responds to tragic mass shooting
The Boulder Jewish community is coming together to grieve the 10 lives lost in the devastating mass shooting that took place in a Boulder supermarket on Monday. The Boulder JCC will host “Coming Together as a Community ,” a virtual gathering of synagogues, Haver (Boulder’s Rabbinic Council), and the Boulder JCC to mourn the victims…
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News After son of criminal rabbi takes over Poway synagogue, some congregants quit
After a high-profile rabbi came under investigation for fraud, the rabbi’s son took over the synagogue and brought in three outsiders to set it straight. But the timing of the son’s takeover and the existence of his new board of directors was kept secret for months, leaving a congregation already shellshocked from an antisemitic attack…
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News At RNC and DNC, two Jewish dads from Parkland, and two very different views on guns
Two dads, themselves born in the same year. Both Jewish. Both New York-area transplants to Florida, who didn’t think much about politics, until their daughters were shot dead by a gunman in 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Now Andrew Pollack and Fred Guttenberg are lauded as authorities on gun violence and…
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Fast Forward Poway Chabad Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein pleads guilty to tax fraud
(JTA) — The rabbi who lost a finger in a shooting attack on a Chabad synagogue in Poway, California, in 2019 pleaded guilty to tax fraud. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein pleaded guilty Tuesday in a scheme in which donors contributed to his synagogue but then got most of the money back, enabling the donor to claim…
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Fast Forward Jersey City Shooter Hid Handcuff Keys In His Underwear
The man and woman accused of killing three people in a Jersey City, N.J. kosher grocery store were both found to have keys that could unlock handcuffs — the man’s in his underwear, local news station NBC4 reported Monday, citing law enforcement sources. Police searching through the clothes of David Anderson and Francine Graham, the…
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News Kosher Supermarket Owner Mourns His Wife: ‘I Have To Do It All Without You’
On a Jersey City street, a crowd of men dressed in black hats and coats stand on the sidewalk and flood out into the street. A white bus stamped with “Chaverim of Rockaway” flanks the crowd. Speakers tower over them, projecting a tremulous voice. That voice belongs to Moishe Ferencz, the husband of Mindy Ferencz,…
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