Sandy Hook
As a rabbi, I will violate the Sabbath to help save lives from gun violence
By Joshua Hammerman — March 20, 2018
(RNS) — Yes, this march is so important that I — a rabbi — am going to blatantly disrupt God’s holy Sabbath. But if the ancient rabbinic sages are to be believed, that’s precisely what God wants me to do.
On the anniversary of Sandy Hook, a mother’s gratitude for her child’s faith
By Sophfronia Scott — December 13, 2017
NEWTOWN, Conn. (RNS) — He has few words for the magnitude of what happened but I knew he had to work his own grief, and the way he did so would determine the way in which he walked through the world — whether he could live in faith and not fear.
Donald Trump’s jihad on Muslims
By Arsalan Iftikhar — August 15, 2016
(RNS) Trump believes that if we just utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism' enough times, an Aladdin-esque blue genie in a bottle will come defeat ISIS in one fell swoop.
Obama meets victims, renews call for gun control
By RNS staff — June 16, 2016
Obama renewed his call for gun control legislation after a series of emotional private meetings in Orlando with the families of victims.
Did gun control prevent Jews from stopping the Holocaust?
By Lauren Markoe — February 6, 2013
(RNS) Many American Jews and others are fervently rebutting a claim made by gun rights activists: that gun control kept firearms from European Jewry, and made the Holocaust, if not possible, than more catastrophic than it would otherwise have been.
Newtown shooting galvanizes religious gun control advocates
By Adelle M. Banks — December 17, 2012
(RNS) The shooting of 26 children and adults at a Connecticut elementary school is galvanizing religious leaders who have long supported gun control. By Adelle M. Banks.
Newtown shootings renew questions about evil and suffering
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — December 17, 2012
(RNS) "Oh, God!" That cry has echoed ever since news of the horrific Newtown school shootings. As the names of those who died are made known, that cry is followed by a question: Why? Why does God allow evil? By Cathy Lynn Grossman/ USA Today.
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