On April 27, 2019, 19-year-old John Earnest broke into a Chabad synagogue in Poway, California, as about 100 congregants marked the Jewish Sabbath and the last day of Passover. Firing an AR-15 –style automatic rifle, Earnest killed 60-year-old Lori...
On December 28, the U.S. Southern District of California sentenced Poway synagogue shooter John T. Earnest to life in prison with an additional 30 years. On April 27, 2019, Earnest shot and killed one woman, injured three other individuals, and...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On October 7, 2023, Hamas invaded southern Israel where, in the space of eight hours, hundreds of armed terrorists perpetrated mass crimes of brutality, rape, and torture against men, women and children. In the biggest attack on Jewish life in a single day since the Holocaust, 1,200 were killed, and 251 were taken hostage into Gaza—where 101 remain. One year on, antisemitic incidents have increased by record numbers.
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