SACRAMENTO — A lawmaker proposed legislation Monday that would require closer scrutiny of hunting licenses like the one used by a teenager charged with opening fire at a synagogue last year. The suspect, John T. Earnest, was issued a hunting license, but it was not set to go into effect...
Hate Crime Charges Filed Against Poway Synagogue Shooting Suspect
SAN DIEGO — Federal officials announced Thursday that they have filed 109 hate crime charges against the man suspected of opening fire in a Poway synagogue and said he called a 911 dispatcher afterward to report that he had done it to "defend my nation" against the Jewish people. The...
Poway Synagogue Just Got Money to Improve Security
POWAY — A gunman fired his semi-automatic rifle at Jewish worshippers after walking through a Southern California synagogue's front entrance — a spot that religious leaders determined last year needed improved security. The Chabad of Poway synagogue applied for a federal grant to install gates and more secure doors to...
Report: Violent Anti-Semitic Attacks in US Doubled in 2018
Violent attacks against the Jewish community in the United States doubled last year, while overall attacks that also include vandalism and harassment remained near record-high levels, the Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday. The Jewish civil rights group released its annual census of anti-Semitic incidents three days after a gunman opened fire at a...
Jewish Community Will 'Stand Tall' After Synagogue Shooting
POWAY — Eight-year-old Noya Dahan had finished praying and gone to play with other children at her Southern California synagogue when gunshots rang out. Her uncle grabbed her and the other children, leading them outside to safety as her leg bled from a shrapnel wound. "I was scared, really, really...
Chabad Fresno Gathers to Remember Poway Shooting Victims
Rabbi Levy Zirkind took the shooting Saturday (April 27) in Poway personally. He knows Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. The two attended Yeshiva (seminary) together in Brooklyn during the 1980s. Zirkind’s son, Rabbi Mendel Zirkind, is friends with Goldstein’s son. Their wives went to school together as well. Both...