Jewish schools, institutions join security conference call

Published on January 4, 2013

A conference call on school safety organized by the security arm of two national Jewish umbrellas drew over 800 participants.

Blowing Out The Candles

Published on December 25, 2012

The round rosy face of the child is lit by the glow of candles on a birthday cake. The cake is enrobed in butter-cream frosting, the name of the child scrolled in colorful piping.

Reform, Conservative, Orthodox leaders join gun control call

Published on December 21, 2012

Top figures from the Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements joined an interfaith call for greater gun controls in the wake of last week's school massacre in Connecticut.

A shooting: Just like yesterday

Published on December 20, 2012

When I heard about the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I shut my office door and wept. And I couldn’t help but remember another day 13 years ago.

A prayer of healing from the tragedy in Newtown

Published on December 20, 2012

Our hearts are breaking, God, As our nation buries innocent children and brave teachers. The loss is overwhelming.

Sandy Hook: Despair gives way to hope

By Rabbi David Wolpe
Published on December 19, 2012

At first it is an anguish so deep that it destroys faith in life. We are witnesses to pain and loss so immense that to yearn for a resting place, to find anything good or hopeful or healing, feels like a betrayal. In the face of such tragedy, do we seek out sparks of hope because we are healers or deniers?

White House readies gun-control plan as more children laid to rest

Published on December 19, 2012

The White House revealed the first steps of a gun-control plan on Wednesday as the United States grieved for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in another wave of funerals.

Jewish parent power tools can help kids cope with the tragedy at Sandy Hook and beyond

Published on December 19, 2012

There’s been a lot of talk in the news about what to say to children about the massacre at Sandy Hook. A steady stream of experts attempting to provide some sort of parental protocol for addressing this unimaginable tragedy with our kids.

Iranian TV interview blames Israel for Sandy Hook massacre

Published on December 18, 2012

An Iranian state-run media outlet reported on an Arizona businessman's claim that Israel is behind the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

An outsider’s viewpoint on the Sandy Hook shooting

By Noga Gur-Arieh
Published on December 18, 2012

Newtown students return to class after school massacre

Published on December 18, 2012

Students returned to school in the shattered Connecticut town of Newtown on Tuesday, accompanied by police and counselors to help them cope with grief and fear after a gunman's rampage killed 26 people in an elementary school and altered attitudes about gun control in Washington.

At first Newtown funeral, Noah Pozner remembered as loving ‘little man’

Published on December 18, 2012

Veronique Pozner remembered her son Noah as a rambunctious, video-game loving "little man," a boy with a perpetual smile and twinkly blue eyes who dreamed of becoming a doctor, a soldier and manager of a factory that makes tacos -- his favorite food.

Funerals for Newtown victims Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto begin as schools confront tragedy

Published on December 17, 2012

Mourners in Newtown, Conn., headed for the first two of 20 funerals of schoolchildren massacred in their classroom as the rest of the nation on Monday anxiously sent children back to school with tightened security.

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.

Israeli leaders send condolence messages in Newtown massacre

Published on December 16, 2012

Israeli leaders sent letters of condolence to President Barack Obama over the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn.

Sandy Hook, Sandy and the politics of learned helplessness

By Marty Kaplan
Published on December 16, 2012

"We have got to get Michelle to make this her priority."

Sandy Hook: Beyond gun control

By David Suissa
Published on December 16, 2012

When something happens that overwhelms our emotions - as when a shooter murders 20 schoolchildren in cold blood- we get dizzy and out of balance. The shock and horror are too much to take.

The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre has the blood of Connecticut students on his hands

Published on December 16, 2012

Looking for ways to explain America’s epidemic of mass shootings -- including Friday’s murder of 27 people, including 20 children, at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school – many pundits are blaming the country’s “culture of violence” and its preference for “protecting guns over children.” But the majority of Americans favor strict gun control laws. No, let's not burden Americans with collective guilt. The problem is more narrow -- and more fixable -- than that.

Stopping Asperger’s from Becoming Another Victim in the CT Massacre

By Michelle K. Wolf
Published on December 16, 2012

Jewish 6-year-old youngest of Newtown shooting victims

Published on December 15, 2012

A Jewish child was identified as the youngest of the 26 victims killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting massacre in Newtown, Conn.

Murder in Newtown - God Help Us All

By Ilana Angel
Published on December 15, 2012

Obama speech after Connecticut school shooting [FULL TEXT]

By JewishJournal
Published on December 14, 2012

"This afternoon, I spoke with Governor Malloy and FBI Director Mueller. I offered Gov. Malloy my condolences on behalf of the nation and made it clear he will have every single resource that he needs to investigate this heinous crime, care for the victims, counsel their families."

The speech President Obama should have given after the Connecticut school shooting

By Rob Eshman
Published on December 14, 2012

When news of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School first broke, President Barack Obama stood before the nation, felt our grief and shed a tear.

28 reported dead, including 20 children, in Connecticut school shooting

Published on December 14, 2012

A heavily armed gunman opened fire on school children and staff at a Connecticut elementary school on Friday, killing at least 28 people, including 18 children, in the latest in a series of shooting rampages that have tormented the United States this year.