STACEY NEWMAN, Executive Director of ProgressWoman
• Published June 9, 2022
How many gun deaths is enough?
In the week after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas on May 24th killing 19 fourth graders, two teachers and injuring 17, there were an additional 20 mass shootings in the United States.
That’s...
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Kveller on December 2, 2021. We are republishing it today in light of the horrific school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
The desperate desire to help end the gun violence epidemic in America is rooted...
The astronomical number of people harmed by guns last year — children, domestic violence and suicide victims — had me expecting that someone in charge might want to “do something” about it.
In a six month span last year, more than nine...
Action needed to end gun violenceWe’ve lost more than a dozen children in the St. Louis area this summer from violence. As a mother, I am so tired of seeing headlines with precious faces of children lost to gunfire yet I feel like our elected officials...
JEWISH LIGHT EDITORIAL
• Published August 15, 2019
With numbing certainty, more mass shootings of innocent men, women and children will occur in more American cities, many of them at the hands of highly unstable people who bought into vicious screeds on various websites. In El Paso, Texas, it was in...
Encourage lawmakers to pass gun violence prevention billsI was heartbroken to hear the news of not one, but three major shootings this weekend in El Paso, Dayton and now Chicago. With the 2019-2020 school year about to start, we will also have to brace...
BY ERIC BERGER, STAFF WRITER
• Published February 28, 2018
A group of Parkway Central High School students organized a news conference after school Friday to call for action to prevent gun violence in the wake of the mass shooting earlier this month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.More...
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published February 28, 2018
Nothing debatable hereAdd Levi Dyson to the growing list of high school students who continue to dazzle and change the world with their skills, grit and heart.A senior at Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Dyson was recently awarded the 2018 Speak for...
BY RABBI SETH D. GORDON
• Published February 21, 2018
Like you, I learned about the school shooting in Florida from the news. But unlike you, I heard the news from Israel, where I am studying. And probably unlike you, I had a very personal connection: My nephew Zachary and my niece Zoe were in that school.I...
We knew it was coming.
The worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history happened in Las Vegas last week, with 58 killed and more than 500 injured. The numbers of fatalities will keep changing, as families are devastated and medical professionals with...
I’d like this to be titled, “Don’t Touch It! Run Away! Tell A Trusted Adult!” Most Jews will not know what I am talking about. Readers, do you know? If you do not, you have failed to teach your children about something that can save their lives....
Ellen Futterman, Editor
• Published October 11, 2017
It dawned on me a few days after last week’s Las Vegas mass shooting: It’s been exactly 30 years since a St. Louis security guard abducted a friend and me at gunpoint.I will get to that story shortly. More important is the reason I am retelling...
