Hate Crimes
The game’s proceeds will be donated to 15 groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Agency for Israel, the World Jewish Congress and Community Security Trust.
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.”
“As a Jew, you are a soldier of God. You need to stand tall and fast, and do whatever it takes to change the world,” said Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein.
U.S. special envoy for Mideast peace negotiations Jason Greenblatt is the most senior Trump administration official yet to visit the site.
Rabbi Dr. Ari Sytner of Yeshiva University was dispatched to provide trauma counseling and age-appropriate directives for speaking with schoolchildren about mass shootings.
John Earnest, 19, showed no emotion in San Diego County Superior Court as Judge Joseph Brannigan denied the suspect bail, calling him “an obvious and extraordinary risk to public safety.”
There were 1,879 anti-Semitic incidents in 2018—the third-highest figure of such incidents since 1979, according to a new report by the Anti-Defamation League.
This latest act of terror came six months to the day when 11 people were killed at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue in Pittsburgh, the deadliest attack in U.S. Jewish history.
John Earnest, 19, a nursing student who had no prior criminal record and wrote in a manifesto that he “would die a thousand times over to prevent the doomed fate that the Jews have planned for my race,” is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.
The shooting at Chabad of Poway took the life of a beloved pillar in the Southern California community.
Chabad both laments and condemns the Passover shooting in Poway, Calif., pleading with local and federal authorities, as well as the school system, to take steps to root out “gangrene” of anti-Semitism.
Speaking from his hospital bed, Israeli Almog Peretz attributes his instinct of protecting children to years of running to shelter from Gaza rockets in his hometown of Sderot in southern Israel.
