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 Pittsburgh Rabbi Says He’s Against Death Penalty For Synagogue Shooter
(JTA) — Don’t seek the death penalty for the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman. That’s the message from a spiritual leader at one of the three congregations that share the Tree of Life synagogue building to U.S. Attorney General William Barr. Rabbi Jonathan Perlman, whose New Light Congregation lost three worshippers in the October attack by Robert…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Jewish School Installs Bullet-Resistant Doors To Thwart Would-Be Shooters
(JTA) — An Orthodox girls’ school in Brooklyn has installed bullet-resistant classroom doors to keep out shooters. Bnos Menachem in the heavily Hasidic Crown Heights neighborhood is the first of more than 50 Jewish schools and synagogues in Brooklyn to have the 150-pound metal doors installed by an Israel-based manufacturer, the New York Post reported…
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Fast Forward Dayton Gunman Retweeted Longtime Former Forward Contributor
The Twitter account believed to belong to the man who killed nine people in a Dayton, Ohio bar frequently retweeted posts supportive of left-wing figures and movements, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, antifa protesters and, on a few occasions, longtime former Forward contributor Eli Valley. Valley, a cartoonist, has risen in prominence during the Trump administration…
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Fast Forward Dayton Gunman Showed Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Video To Girl On First Date
The man who allegedly killed nine people in Dayton, Ohio on Sunday showed a woman footage of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting on their first date, the woman told the Associated Press. Adelia Johnson said she met suspect Connor Betts in a college psychology class this year and that they dated for a few months until…
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News Synagogues Are Now Conducting Active Shooter Drills During Services
(JTA) — When the ushers locked the door to the sanctuary, and the congregants prepared to flee the synagogue in preparation for a mass shooting, Rabbi Neil Cooper made sure it all happened before they had to take the Torahs out of the ark. Ten minutes later the worshippers were back in the pews, doors…
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Fast Forward Pittsburgh Jewish Federation Gives Over $650,000 To Christchurch Mosque Victims
(JTA) — The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh will give more than $650,000 to victims of the Christchurch terror attacks on two mosques that left 51 worshippers dead. More than $60,000 of that total was raised by the Tree of Life congregation, which was targeted by an anti-Semitic gunman five months earlier on Oct. 27,…
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Fast Forward Ethiopian-Israeli Teen Shot, Killed By Off-Duty Police Officer
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Ethiopian-Israeli teen was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer who said he felt in danger after he tried to break up a street fight in a northern Israeli city. Solomon Tekah, 19, was killed on Sunday night in Kiryat Haim, a suburb of Haifa. Eyewitnesses to the incident told…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Poway Rabbi Tells U.N. To Fight Hate With ‘Random Acts Of Goodness’
The rabbi of the Chabad of Poway synagogue, which was attacked by an anti-Semitic gunman in April, addressed the United Nations on Wednesday and told the assembly to fight anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred with “random acts of kindness,” the Jewish Journal reported. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who lost his finger in the shooting, was…
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