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Florida university moving to fire professor who harrassed Sandy Hook parents
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.
The Dr. David Applebaum z’l Symposium: Preparedness for Mass Casualty Events
The Symposium on Preparedness for Mass Casualty Events is in commemoration of the 10th Yahrzeit of Dr. David Applebaum, who was the Director of the Emergency Room at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Dr. Applebaum and his daughter Nava were victims of a terror attack on the eve of Nava\’s wedding.
Jewish schools, institutions join security conference call
A conference call on school safety organized by the security arm of two national Jewish umbrellas drew over 800 participants.
A meditation in memory of the twenty children who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary
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
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
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
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
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
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.