Posted on 02/10/2023 6:32:29 AM PST by Eleutheria5
“It could never happen in Pittsburgh” was once a common mantra. When I arrived in Pittsburgh nearly 40 years ago from New York City, it seemed like a cross between a quiet village and a Hollywood stage set designed to depict peace and security. The late Fred Rodgers, the cardigan-attired former minister and later star of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood lived four blocks from my house in a heavily Jewish community. This was close to the Tree of Life Synagogue, a sanctuary where I previously worshipped. ...”
In 2015, America wasn’t yet rocked by mass shootings. Still, a watershed event occurred on June 17 of that year: Nine Blacks were murdered during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Previously, I had no interest in carrying a firearm and certainly not in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
But if Christians were being killed in Church, how long would it be, I wondered, until Jews were murdered in synagogues?
With a shot heard worldwide, the answer came just three years later, on October 27, 2018. Eleven Jews worshipping in the Tree of Life were murdered by a deranged antisemite shouting that he wanted all Jews to die. Among those were a 97-year-old grandmother, two brothers with special needs beloved by the local community, and Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz, a bowtie-donning, a 66-year-old physician whom I knew as a professional colleague. He was killed when he ran outside to attend to the wounded.
It took only another year for the Poway synagogue shooting in 2019. The violence has since spread to pandemic proportions in the United States. Within the first month of 2023, there have been more mass shootings in the United States (thirty-nine) than there have been days.
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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Say what..?
The problem isn’t OUR guns,
it’s YOUR sons.
When the second Temple was being built half of the Jews involved in the project were building it and the other half had weapons in hand to protect the builders.
You can read about it in fourth chapter of Nehemiah.
The Third Temple is being built internally before it will be built in a physical form. During this time every Jew in Israel needs what we know here as Constitutional Carry.
OK for Israelis to have guns, but Israeli-controlled politicians here don’t want Americans to have them
If they don't talk about men getting pregnant or the 57+ genders, they are shortchanging their kids...🤓
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