Loughner’s parents acted on signs of danger before Giffords attack

Published on March 28, 2013

The parents of Jared Loughner, concerned by his erratic behavior, confiscated a gun and disabled his car in the months before the killing spree that critically wounded congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

Sandy Hook: The cultural phenomenon behind mass shootings

Published on December 16, 2012

It has been 13 years since the murders at Columbine High School, when two teenagers killed 13 people and wounded 21 others. Since that time, ABC reports, there have been 31 school shootings.

Murder in Newtown - God Help Us All

By Ilana Angel
Published on December 15, 2012

Egypt says it has identified suspects in Sinai killings

Published on September 6, 2012

Egypt has identified seven suspects, including one Egyptian, in the killing of 16 border guards last month that triggered the biggest security sweep along its frontier with Israel in decades, the interior minister said.

White supremacist couple accused in killing spree indicted in Oregon

Published on August 20, 2012

A white supremacist couple accused of four West Coast murders, including one because a name sounded Jewish, were indicted on federal racketeering charges.

Iranian suspects reportedly confess to killing scientists, training in Israel

Published on August 6, 2012

More than a dozen Iranian citizens arrested in connection with the assassination of several Iranian nuclear scientists have confessed, Iranian state television reported.

Israeli teen to serve 8 years in prison for killing Arab

Published on July 12, 2012

Israeli teen was sentenced to prison for killing an Arab man in Jerusalem.

This past month in the Muslim world

By Dennis Prager
Published on July 11, 2012

Some news items from the Islamic world in the past month.

When killers target kids

Published on May 2, 2012

On July 22, 2011, 33-year-old Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people, most of them teenagers, on the island of Utøya in Norway. On March 19, 2012, 23-year-old Mohammed Merah shot and killed a teacher and three young children at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.

Shootings upend French election, Sarkozy gains

Published on March 22, 2012

The shootings of French soldiers and Jewish schoolchildren by a home-grown Islamist gunman killed by police have upended France's election campaign and resurrected conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy's prospects.

Road to radicalization from Toulouse to Kandahar

Published on March 21, 2012

For Mohamed Merah, the Frenchman suspected of killing four Jews and three Muslim soldiers in southwestern France, the road to radicalization ran from Toulouse to Kandahar in Afghanistan.

Toulouse shooting suspect’s standoff continues [VIDEO]

Published on March 21, 2012

The standoff in France between police and Mohammed Merah, the suspect in the shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, stretched into its 13th hour Wednesday.

Thousands march in memory of Toulouse victims

Published on March 20, 2012

Thousands silently demonstrated Monday evening in Paris to pay tribute to the four victims of a shooting attack at a Jewish school in southwestern France.

Shabbat Shalom: Welcome to the Ant Farm

By Ilana Angel
Published on October 15, 2011

Israel, Gaza militants agree to halt fire

Published on August 26, 2011

Israel and Islamic Jihad militants agreed to halt fire on Friday after days of deadly cross border violence, a Palestinian official said.

After attack near Eilat kills 8 Israelis, worries over the Egypt border

Published on August 18, 2011

After a deadly string of terrorist attacks in southern Israel, officials in Jerusalem are on the alert for how instability in neighboring Egypt may be opening up more avenues for terrorists intent on attacking Israel.

Rest in Peace Leiby Kletzky

By Ilana Angel
Published on July 13, 2011

Egypt vice president Omar Suleiman survives assassination attempt, reports say

Published on February 5, 2011

Fox News reported on Saturday that recently appointed Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman has survived an attempted assassination.

The Way of Madness

By Rabbi Steven Z. Leder
Published on July 21, 2005

The idea of one Jew killing another is shocking. Most of us think it never happens -- but the truth is that it does. It happens this week in the Torah with Pinchas. After seeing a Jew apparently enticed by a Midianite prostitute, Pinchas runs them both through with his spear.

It happened when the Macabbees saw a Jew publicly bowing down to a statue of Zeus in the town of Modin. It happened during the American Civil War, World War I and when the State of Israel was founded. Most recently, as most of us painfully recall, it happened when a young, deranged Orthodox Jew named Yigal Amir assassinated then Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. Ironically, it was this week's Torah portion and the character of Pinchas that some of the most extreme Jews used as a justification for the assassination

Quebec Leader Tours Firebombed School

By Bram Eisenthal
Published on April 15, 2004

"It will actually leave a very strong impression," Jean Charest told reporters, following his April 8 visit to Montreal's United Talmud Torah. "This sight and smell leaves a lasting impression of how violent a gesture this was."

Firebombed early on the morning of April 5, the school reeked of burned children's books and plastic, making it nearly impossible to stay inside for more than a few minutes. A note left at the arson scene reportedly said the attack was in retribution for Israel's recent killing of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin and was just a taste of things to come.

The Drawbacks of the Proposed Pullback

By Dr. Nadav Morag
Published on April 1, 2004

The targeted killing of Hamas founder Ahmad Yassin and the "open season" that Israel has declared against Hamas leaders and those of other Palestinian terrorist organizations must be viewed as part of a larger Israeli policy designed to achieve a number of objectives.

Building Bridges   in Brooklyn

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on February 12, 2004

Two year ago, when Jeremy Kagan met Yudi Simon, a Chasid, and T.J. Moses, an African American, the young men lived just four blocks from each other in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

"But it may as well have been 50 miles," he said.

Their tenuous relationship is the focus of Kagan's new Showtime movie, "Crown Heights," set around the riots that rocked that mixed neighborhood in August 1991. The fictionalized film will be accompanied by a short documentary, "Increase the Peace," Kagan made about the events and the real life Moses and Simon.

The War at Home

By Rob Eshman
Published on April 17, 2003

Four Angelenos were killed on the last day of the battle for Baghdad. Three were young men, each one of them killed with a bullet to the head on the streets of South Central Los Angeles. The fourth to die was an 8-year-old girl, hit by a bullet meant for a gang member.

Death Camp Uprising

By Alan Riding
Published on September 5, 2002

In the history of the Holocaust, the Sobibor death camp in Eastern Poland has remained something of a footnote, a place where 260,000 Jews were murdered, as opposed to at least 1.1 million in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Having operated for just 18 months and closed long before the Allied victory in May 1945, Sobibor, like its victims, disappeared almost without a trace.

15 and Counting

By Rob Eshman
Published on August 8, 2002

Washington's official response to the killings of five Americans at Hebrew University can be summed up largely in a word: words.

Use Law to Respond to Hebrew University Attack

By Stephen M. Flatow
Published on August 8, 2002

We've seen it before -- more than 20 dead and hundreds injured as a result of Palestinian Arab terror attacks in Israel within a week of each other. The death of five Americans at Hebrew University on Jerusalem's Mount Scopus brought the pain home to America once again. President Bush remarked, "We are responding to a murder of Americans. We're responding all across the globe to murders of Americans....The war on terror is fought on many fronts. And I just -- I cannot speak strongly enough about how we must collectively get after those who kill...."

And following a wreath-laying on the Hebrew University campus, Daniel C. Kurtzer, U.S. ambassador to Israel, said, "We are very committed in the war against terrorism and, in addition to the support that we give to the State of Israel as a partner in this war against terrorism, we will do all that we can to fight against terrorists wherever they are."

Food for Thought

By Hirsh Goodman
Published on August 1, 2002

The motive driving suicide volunteers is revenge. They have stopped fighting to liberate Palestine. They have suspended the dream of a state. They now dream of killing as many Jews as possible, of revenge, of making life in Israel impossible -- and they truly believe they can do it.

2002 terror attacks

By Journal Staff
Published on March 14, 2002

2002 terror attacks

Now It’s Jewish Terrorists

By Larry Derfner
Published on July 26, 2001

The settler movement is in serious denial over last week's killings of three Palestinians, including 3-month-old Dia Tmeizi. While all settlers publicly condemn the killings, even the most "mainstream" don't see any connection between the nighttime ambush near Hebron and the incessant cries for "revenge" by settlers at funerals, demonstrations and elsewhere.

Right at the Start

By Beverly Gray
Published on March 23, 2000

It's not only that children are killing children.

Suspect Indicted in Murder of JDL’s Krugel

By Jim Crogan
Published on November 29, 1999

Almost nine months after the brutal prison-yard slaying of Earl Krugel, the longtime No. 2 man in the Jewish Defense League (JDL), federal authorities have indicted an inmate with no apparent ties to Krugel.

The suspect, David Frank Jennings, 30, allegedly attacked Krugel from behind with a piece of concrete hidden in a bag while Krugel was using an exercise machine at a federal prison in Phoenix.