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(JTA) — More than 100 leaflets with hand-drawn swastikas on them were found dropped on the front yard of the Chabad Jewish Student center at Virginia Tech. The leaflets were discovered at the student center located across the street from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, on Saturday afternoon by Chabad…
So many eloquent words have been written in the aftermath of the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. that there is no need to add to the expressions of pain and anguish we have all shared as citizens, as family members, as Jews. But another kind of expression escapes redundancy: The call…
An elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, was put on lockdown on Tuesday, the first day back at school for most children since the massacre at another grade school in town. As funerals continued for victims of Friday’s shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary, local media reported that Head O’Meadow Elementary School was placed on lockdown and…
It has been 13 years since the murders at Columbine High School, when two teenagers killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. Since that time, ABC reports, there have been 31 school shootings. “Senseless” seems to be the most frequently used word to describe the awful events at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School, and senseless…
