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Fast Forward Poway Synagogue Wanted But Couldn’t Afford Armed Security Guards, Rabbi Said
Chabad of Poway, where three people were injured and one killed in a shooting Saturday, wanted armed security guards but couldn’t afford it, its rabbi told TIME Magazine. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, whose hands were damaged during the attack, said that he had been fearful of an attack on his synagogue in the wake of the…
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Fast Forward Man Arrested For Poway Synagogue Shooting Charged With Murder
(JTA) — The alleged gunman in the attack on the Chabad of Poway synagogue near San Diego was charged with murder. The gunman, 19, was charged on Sunday afternoon with one count of Murder in the First Degree, and three counts of Attempted Murder in the First Degree, according to jail records posted on the…
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News Now We Know What Happened: Poway’s Jews Defied Their Attacker, And He Fled
Saturday was the last day of Passover — one of the four times during the yearly cycle of holidays that Jews recite Yizkor, the prayer for the dead and for martyrs. There were several dozen people in attendance for the service at the Chabad of Poway, the only Orthodox synagogue in northern suburbs of San…
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Fast Forward ‘Terror Will Not Win’: Rabbi Shot In Poway Synagogue Attack Looks To Future
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein has emerged from surgery shaken but hopeful for the future. Goldstein is the rabbi of the Chabad center in Poway where a gunman injured three and killed one woman, Lori Gilbert-Kaye. After Goldstein was shot in the hand, Gilbert-Kaye put herself between him and the gunman, and was immediately shot. She succumbed…
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Fast Forward Poway Synagogue Shooting Injured Two From Israeli Family From Sderot
Two of the three people injured in the Poway synagogue shooting are related. The young girl injured in the Poway synagogue shooting Saturday is the niece of the Israeli man who was injured shepherding several children to safety out of the sanctuary, according to the man’s brother. Almog Peretz, 34, managed to rush several chidren…
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Fast Forward Almog Peretz, Israeli Visiting Poway Synagogue, Saved Children’s Lives
This man is being called a hero. A friend says 34-year-old Almog Peretz saved children during today’s synagogue shooting in Poway. Hear the story tonight on @fox5sandiego pic.twitter.com/FKBIc9tcCL — Kristen Shanahan (@k_shan7) April 28, 2019 Almog Peretz, 34, had the training necessary to react quickly to a life-threatening emergency. He is Israeli, and is from…
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Fast Forward Poway Synagogue Shooting Victim Lori Gilbert-Kaye, ‘Woman of Valor,’ Saved Rabbi’s Life
(JTA) — Lori Gilbert-Kaye, who was killed in the attack at a Chabad synagogue near San Diego, is credited with jumping in front of the synagogue’s rabbi to shield him from the gunman’s bullets. Gilbert-Kaye, 60, of San Diego, is survived by her husband and 22-year-old daughter. “Lori you were a jewel of our community…
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Fast Forward ‘Hired Goons,’ Intimidating Rottweiler Cited In Synagogue Lockout Lawsuit
Hired goons. A rottweiler. Sabotage. Coney Island. If you think this sounds like the plot from a classic crime epic about Brooklyn, you’d be right. But also these things relate to an ongoing lawsuit alleging one group’s “takeover” of a synagogue in the sleepy neighborhood of Seagate, at the far western edge of Coney Island….
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