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Another shooting at a synagogue took place, just several months after the Pittsburgh tragedy, this time in San Diego, and one person was murdered:

A gunman walked into a San Diego-area synagogue crowded with Shabbat worshippers on Saturday and opened fire with an assault-style rifle, killing one woman inside and wounding three others in a hate crime carried out on the last day of Passover, authorities said.

The suspect, who fled the scene by car but surrendered to police a short time later, was identified by authorities as John Earnest, 19, of San Diego, the apparent author of a “manifesto” who claimed to have set a nearby mosque on fire last month and professed drawing inspiration from the gunman who killed nearly 50 people at two mosques in New Zealand.

Rabbi Yonah Fradkin, executive director of Chabad of San Diego County, said in a statement that Lori Kaye, 60, of Poway was killed. He said those wounded in the shooting were Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, Noya Dahan, 8, and Almog Peretz, 34.

“In the face of senseless hate we commit to live proudly as Jews in this glorious country,” Fradkin said. “We strongly believe that love is exponentially more powerful than hate. We are deeply shaken by the loss of a true woman of valor, Lori Kaye, who lost her life solely for living as a Jew.”

Local reports said that Kaye had jumped in front of the synagogue’s founding rabbi, Yisroel Goldstein, to save him.

If there's anything this is telling, it's that much like in Europe, Jewish communities in the US are no longer safe, and now, more security will be needed. Kaye was brave to defend the rabbi, as noted here. For this, she should be highly praised in memory. As for the shooter, he should get a lethal injection for what he did.

Labels: anti-semitism, california, Judaism, Moonbattery, terrorism, United States, war on terror