In the year since 20 school children and six adults were murdered in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Conn., the organized Jewish community has been frustrated by the inability of a paralyzed Congress to agree on new gun control regulation. Two rabbis, however, not willing to take no for an answer, have…
An interfaith telephone effort in support of increased background checks on gun purchases is being held on the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Jewish groups from the major denominations are among the 45 faith-based organizations participating in Faiths Calling, in which callers contact their senators on Friday in support of the…
Last week, the Connecticut State Attorney issued a long-awaited report on the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown. The report painted a clearer picture of the events of last December 14, and also provided details of shooter Adam Lanza’s life — his untreated “Asperger’s characteristics,” his love of Dance Dance Revolution and his…
The man who killed 26 people including 20 children in an attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School almost a year ago acted alone and his motive may never be known, according to an investigative report released on Monday. The state attorney’s report said that the criminal investigation into the shooting by 20-year-old Adam Lanza, who…
Schools in Newtown, Connecticut, will employ extra security on Monday as the state releases its long-awaited report on the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 children and six adults, including Noah Pozner, whose family is Jewish. The state prosecutor’s office has said the report will be published on the website of…
Connecticut’s long-awaited report on the shooting last December at a Newtown elementary school that killed 20 children and six adults is due to be released on Monday, the prosecutor’s office said on Friday. The report will be published on the website of Connecticut’s Division of Criminal Justice, www.ct.gov/csao. Mark Dupuis, a spokesman for the state…
Naomi Zeveloff, the Forward’s deputy culture editor and editor of The Sisterhood, was awarded a Front Page Award in Newspapers with circulation of less than 100,000 by the Newswomen’s Club of New York. Zeveloff’s winning piece, “Noah Pozner’s Family Remembers and Mourns,” was written in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in…
Noah Pozner would have turned 7 years old this month. The youngest victim of the December 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and the only Jew among them, his life was cut short because a deranged man was able to access weapons in a nation that cares more about its guns…
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