Help Honor Stephen Tyrone Johns

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 12, 2009

The Shooter Von Brunn: Not Just a Jewish Problem

By Rob Eshman
Published on June 10, 2009

That’s the key phrase to remember in thinking about the attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial June 10 that left a security guard dead and another man wounded.
The shooter, an 88 year old white supremiscist named James W. von Brunn, entered the museum, leveled a shotgun at the two closest victims, and pulled the trigger.
Von Brunn decided to cap a long life devoted to the senseless hatred of Jews with a senseless act of violence.

Shooter Claimed Source in the Talmud

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on June 10, 2009

White Supremacist and Holocaust denier James Von Brunn, who shot and killed a security guard in an attack on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today, titled his anti-Semitic manifesto “Tob Shebbe Goyim Harog – Kill the Best Gentiles.” He claimed the quote comes from Talmud Sanhedrin, 59B.

Eyewitness Account of Shooting

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on June 10, 2009

Stephen Tyrone Johns, the security guard shot at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Wednesday afternoon has died. The museum will close on Thursday in honor of Johns, an African-American who has worked at the museum for six years.

Museum of Tolerance Reacts to Holocaust Shooting

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on June 10, 2009

Within minutes of the shooting at the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C., the Los Angeles Police Department contacted the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, regarding its Museum of Tolerance, as well as other L.A. community organizations, according to Wiesenthal Associate Dean Rabbi Abraham Cooper.