Tag: Mass Shootings
Guilty: Bowers convicted on all counts in Pittsburgh synagogue trial
It took jurors five hours to come to their conclusion: The man accused of murdering 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh on the morning of Oct. 27, 2018,...
Judge rules death penalty still on table for alleged Tree of Life shooter
In an 11-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Robert Colville ruled that the defendant’s legal team in the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue shooting trial “fails entirely” to show that the government arbitrarily pursued the...
Aftermath of a shooting: Jewish communal leaders deconstruct Highland Park circumstances
The suspect who killed seven and injured at least 38 people at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill., is being held without bond after being charged on Wednesday with seven counts of first-degree...
Renewed calls for gun control after July Fourth mass shooting leaves seven dead, 30...
The suspected shooter in the Highland Park Independence Day Parade on Monday—Robert “Bobby” Crimo III, 21, of Highwood, Ill.—is in police custody after what Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said was the bloodiest day...
Gunman targets July Fourth parade in one of Chicago’s most Jewish suburbs
CHICAGO—As the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill., commenced heading down Central Avenue in one of Chicago’s most Jewish suburbs, gunshots rang out at approximately 10:19 a.m. CST from the rooftop of...
Jewish groups react to mass shooting in Buffalo, lamenting dismal shared experience of late
While no Jewish people were victims of Saturday’s shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., in which 10 people were killed and three injured, Jewish communal organizations reacted strongly to the incident, which was...
Documentary on worst anti-Semitic attack in America shows courage under fire
SWAT teams rushing to a synagogue to save people from a shooting?
That was something most people thought they’d never see. But that’s what happened at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue when Gregory Bowers opened...
American Jewish identity, three years after the Tree of Life shooting
Three years ago today, we awoke to a world of our ancestors. In the breadth of Jewish history, the names Odessa, Warsaw, Kishinev, Kiev and Hebron represent the unspeakable barbarism many thought to have...
Can a synagogue feel open with locked doors? Rabbis reflect on Pittsburgh, three years...
In a sense, the Jewish communal reactions to the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh and the coronavirus pandemic were diametric opposites.
After Robert Bowers shot and killed 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue...
Architect of World Trade Center memorial to lead Tree of Life reconstruction
Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh announced the selection of an architect on Tuesday to lead its reconstruction and preservation following the October 2018 mass shooting at the temple, when 11 Jewish worshippers...