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Court documents noted that John Earnest called 911 after his attack and told the operator he “just shot up a synagogue ... because Jewish people are destroying the white race.”
A witness told Swedish media, “I heard her cry and plead for help after the attack. She spoke English and shouted, ‘Help me, help me!’ ”
“They’re talking about me, they’re talking about my family, they’re talking about my community,” said Temple Beth-El Rabbi Michael Knopf. “So, it’s impossible to not take that personally.”
A spokesperson for the state’s Board of Judicial Conduct told local NBC affiliate WMC5 that numerous complaints have been filed, and that there is an ongoing investigation.
Valerie Plame is running for the U.S. House of Representatives next year in New Mexico.
Despite complaints, police apparently did not react while the crowd pushed “Joram,” who was wearing a cap from Amsterdam’s Ajax team.
Students will dress in blue and white, contribute $2 a piece, and tell customers at the Bellus cosmetology school in San Diego County about the tragedy that struck the Poway Jewish community on April 27.
“I certainly don’t agree with that, being a Holocaust denier. My best friend, who’s deceased now, was Jewish, and I wouldn’t do that,” said Jim Lammey of the Shelby County Criminal Court, who was re-elected to an eight-year term in 2014.
“While we may not all be related,” said Federation of Greater Pittsburgh president and CEO Jeff Finkelstein, “we are all family in the Jewish world. Remembering our fallen is a global Jewish responsibility.”
Elan Carr declined to call out certain countries or leaders, in addition to specifying what course of action the Trump administration might take.
Children participating in the Philadelphia Muslim Society’s “Umma Day” celebrations sing: “We will sacrifice ourselves for Al-Aqsa, we will chop off their heads, subject them to eternal torture.”
It is co-sponsored by 42 other senators, most of them Republican.
