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Obama, wiping tears, makes new push to tighten gun rules
Jewish Journal
January 5, 2016
Wiping back tears as he remembered children who died in a mass shooting, President Barack Obama on Tuesday described new steps he is taking to tighten gun rules and urged Americans to vote for candidates willing to do more to prevent gun violence.
Florida university moving to fire professor who harrassed Sandy Hook parents
Jewish Journal
December 17, 2015
A Florida university is moving to fire a professor after the parents of the Jewish boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting accused him of harassment.
Grandmother and parents of Noah Pozner, Jewish boy killed in Newtown shooting, slam gun control foes
Jewish Journal
December 14, 2015
The grandmother of the 6-year-old Jewish boy who was killed in the mass school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, criticized opponents of gun control legislation in a Washington Post Op-Ed on the event’s third anniversary.
Police, other NYC officials meet with Bukharians about rash of arsons
Jewish Journal
December 8, 2015
The president of the New York City borough of Queens, the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives and numerous other city officials met with Bukharian Jewish leaders about a string of arsons affecting the community of central Asian Jews.
Yale student at Connecticut hospital being tested for Ebola
Jewish Journal
October 16, 2014
A Connecticut hospital is testing a Yale University student with Ebola-like symptoms who traveled to Liberia last month and a preliminary diagnosis could come in as little as two hours, Governor Dannel Malloy said on Thursday.
Dying in vain in Santa Monica and Sandy Hook
Jonah Lowenfeld
June 12, 2013
This coming Friday, it will have been six months since a shooter armed with an assault rifle killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The same day also will mark one week since another gunman, using the same type of gun, killed five in a rampage that ended at Santa Monica College (SMC).
Gun violence in America: Scandal!
Rob Eshman
May 22, 2013
Two years after his mother was shot and killed, Dallas Sonnier received a phone call from the police: His father had just been shot and killed.
Giffords: ‘Shame’ on senators who voted down gun checks
Jewish Journal
April 18, 2013
The U.S. senators who defeated a bill that would toughen background checks for gun purchasers \”brought shame on themselves,\” former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords said.
Billboards calling for end to U.S. aid to Israel posted in N.Y., Conn.
Jewish Journal
March 27, 2013
Billboards calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel were erected this week at 25 train stations in suburban New York and Connecticut.
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