Tag: Gun Violence
Chabad of Poway synagogue shooter pleads guilty, gets life without parole
A nursing student pleaded guilty on Tuesday to murder and other charges after shooting a gun inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue in California in April 2019.
By pleading guilty, John Earnest avoided the death penalty in...
Gun Violence: A Visitor From Jerusalem Unsafe In Israel Or America
Israelis Efraim Gordon and Yehuda Guetta learned too late that they were not safe whether waiting for a bus in the West Bank or visiting relatives in Baltimore.
Just two weeks prior to the present...
Violence in Israel’s Arab sector claims 111 lives since early 2020
The Higher Arab Monitoring Committee in Israel this weekend called an emergency meeting over the spike in violence in the sector with 111 murders having taken place since early 2020.
Since the beginning of the...
Gunmen open fire near Jewish community center, synagogue in Vienna
Gunmen opened fire near a synagogue and Jewish community center in Vienna on Monday, allegedly targeting two restaurants, according to official reports, videos and photos circulating on social media.
The head of Austria’s Jewish community,...
Shooting in kosher market in New Jersey leaves multiple dead, wounded
At least six people were killed on Tuesday afternoon inside the JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, N.J.
Three civilians, one officer and two suspects were reported killed. An eyewitness confirmed that two of the...
Two victims of synagogue attack in Germany identified
The two victims of the Wednesday attack on a synagogue in Halle, Germany, on Yom Kippur, have been identified.
German pop-music enthusiast Jana Lange, 40, and outdoor painter Kevin S., 20, were shot and killed...
Arrest made in shooting of Jewish man outside Miami synagogue
Police apprehended the suspect behind last month’s drive-by shooting of a 68-year-old man at the Young Israel of Greater Miami on Tuesday, thanks to him visiting the Hallandale Beach Police Department on Monday to report that...
Ohio man pleads not guilty to threatening to shoot up Jewish community center
A self-identified white nationalist in Ohio has pleaded not guilty to threatening the Youngstown Jewish Community Center.
James Reardon Jr., 20, appeared in front of a municipal court judge on Monday following his arrest on...
Dayton shooter showed ex-girlfriend ‘play-by-play’ of Pittsburgh shooting
The gunman who killed nine people on Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, apparently showed his ex-girlfriend, Adelia Johnson, a “play by play” video of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October, Johnson wrote on Monday.
According to Johnson, she...
The Israeli gun culture and approach to preventing mass shootings
Mass shootings are nothing new in the United States, but their sudden rise is ballooning into a shocking nationwide epidemic. Many blame a toxic political culture that is accentuating divisions rather than commonalities between...