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Israeli embassy staffers shooting or Capital Jewish Museum murders? To some, a few words can make a big difference.

May 30, 2025May 31, 2025Sara Wood

Following the fatal shooting last week of two employees of the Israeli embassy outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C. on May 21, Rabbi Noam Marans of the American Jewish Committee offered a prayer. “Our modern American Jewish chronicle of pain has a new locus: Pittsburgh, Poway, Monsey, Jersey City, and now Washington,” it […]

Chicago anti-Zionist rabbi calls DC shooting ‘heinous and unjustified act’ of ‘political violence’

May 23, 2025May 24, 2025Sara Wood

The leader of an anti-ZIonist synagogue in Chicago decried the murders of two Israeli embassy employees as “heinous,” but said he felt it was too soon to tell if the attack was antisemitic. “It’s devastating,” Rabbi Brant Rosen, who leads the Tzedek Chicago congregation, said in an interview. “I mean, I think I would say […]

Capital Jewish Museum attacker shot victims in the back, authorities say as he is charged with murder

May 22, 2025May 24, 2025Sara Wood

Elias Rodriguez, the Chicago man charged with killing two Israeli embassy employees outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, shot his victims multiple times, including firing at one repeatedly as she attempted to crawl away, according to an FBI agent’s account of the incident. The account was filed as the Justice Department […]

‘He never should have made it inside that building’: Jewish security groups face down lapses in DC shooting

May 22, 2025May 25, 2025Sara Wood

On Wednesday night, three armed security officers stood guard as the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington held its annual meeting in the nation’s capital. On the agenda: discussions about the various ways antisemitic rhetoric can lead to violence. Hours later, JCRC CEO Ron Halber said, he found out about the deadly shooting of […]

What we know about Elias Rodriguez, the suspect in the DC shooting that killed 2 Israeli embassy workers

May 22, 2025May 25, 2025Sara Wood

Political signs lined the windows of the Chicago apartment building of Elias Rodriguez, the man officials believe killed two Israeli embassy aides at a Jewish event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. One declared that the apartment was a “Proud Union Home” while another read “Justice for Wadea,” the 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was killed in […]

For those who warned of ‘Free Palestine’ violence, fatal shooting at DC Jewish museum offers grim validation

May 22, 2025May 26, 2025Sara Wood

Two months after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, a man with a gun walked up the steps of a synagogue in Albany, New York, and fired into the air while shouting, “Free Palestine.” Children were inside the building at the time. It was, it seemed, nearly a nightmare scenario for those anxious about […]

‘More Elias’: These people are celebrating the Capital Jewish Museum shooting

May 22, 2025May 26, 2025Sara Wood

At 12:52 a.m., just minutes after the name of one of the victims of the Capital Jewish Museum attack began to trickle out online, a social media user by the name of Mejd S tweeted a short message: “F— Yaron Lischinsky.” Ten minutes earlier, Mejd had trawled Lischinsky’s profile on X, where the Israeli embassy […]