This is the Forward’s coverage of shootings involving or impacting Jews, many of which are motivated by antisemitism.
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News Violent Attack Upends Years Of Quiet, Happy Growth In Jersey City’s Hasidic Haven
Wednesday morning, as he would on any other morning, Chaim got his tefillin and tallis and went to synagogue for morning prayers. But that morning, the synagogue was next to a crime scene — a kosher grocery store at the center of the small Hasidic community in Jersey City, N.J. The neighborhood is a work…
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News Police Examining Jersey City Shooting Motive As Hebrew Israelite Ties Emerge
Updated December 13 One of the accused shooters in the Jersey City, New Jersey kosher supermarket shooting was reportedly a former follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement who had written anti-Semitic posts on social media. The police investigation, which will encompass at least three different crime scenes, is ongoing, and law enforcement agencies are…
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Fast Forward Video Shows Shooters Parking, Then Storming Kosher Grocery, Guns Up
Surveillance footage released Wednesday shows two people with guns leaving their vehicle and entering a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey the day prior. Five people, including the two assailants, were killed in the shooting at the JC Kosher Supermarket. A police officer was killed in a shootout with the two alleged perpetrators prior…
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Fast Forward Kosher Market Shooter Was Former Black Israelite Who ‘Targeted’ Store, Wrote Anti-Semitic Posts
This is a developing story. One of the suspects in the Jersey City, N.J. shooting that left six people dead, including five at a kosher grocery store, had written anti-Semitic social media posts, a law enforcement official told The New York Times. Jersey City mayor Steven Fulop wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that the two…
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Fast Forward Florida Naval Station Shooter Called U.S. ‘Evil’ For Supporting Israel
(JTA) — A military student from Saudi Arabia who killed three people during a shooting attack at a Navy flight school in Florida reportedly posted a message slamming the United States for supporting Israel. The gunman in the Friday attack at the Naval Air Station Pensacola was identified as Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani, 21, a second…
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Fast Forward Chabad Of Poway Rabbi Retires Seven Months After Attack
(JTA) — The rabbi of the Chabad of Poway, who lost his finger in the April 27 attack that killed one, has retired as the congregation’s leader. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, 58, who founded the Chabad of Poway in 1996, retired this week, the synagogue announced. His son, Rabbi Mendel Goldstein, will assume the leadership of…
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News Letter from Germany: We Do Not Want Your Apologies
Once or twice a week, I walk with my 7-year-old son, sometimes with one of his friends, to a chess class. There’s an easy road: via Rosenthaler Strasse in Berlin’s Mitte district, past Hackescher Markt, then a right to our destination. But we don’t like the big streets – there are too many people, and…
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Fast Forward German Synagogue Attacker Reportedly Had Financial Help
(JTA) — The German man suspected of killing two people near a synagogue on Yom Kippur has confessed to the attack and said that he had anti-Semitic and far-right motives, the German federal prosecutor’s officer said. Stephan Balliet, 27, made a “very comprehensive” confession during an hours-long interrogation, according to a spokesman for the federal…
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