#tree-of-life-synagogue-shooting

#tree-of-life-synagogue-shooting

Police in the Greater Toronto Area are proactively ramping up patrols around Jewish places of worship and community gathering spaces as Passover begins Wednesday evening.

Officers responding to the scene found a 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head and an 18-year-old woman with gunshot wounds to the head and chest.

Congregation T'chiyah Rabbi Alana Alpert said that everyone deserves to walk safely down the streets of our neighborhoods and through the doors of our holy spaces. Anytime someone blames or conflates all Jewish people including kids at their school with the state or government of Israel, that is dangerous and antisemitic, and it leads directly to violence against us.

At 12:15 p.m., an armed man named Ayman Mohamad Ghazali barreled a vehicle loaded with gasoline and fireworks into one of the temple's entrances and down a hallway, striking the director of security, Danny Phillips. Another security guard on duty acted quickly and stopped the attacker, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

I saw that America was moving on from each school shooting quicker and quicker every time. Eight years ago, he decided to try a different approach. The documentary All the Empty Rooms, recently nominated for an Academy Award, offers up another way of looking. Over a painful, delicate and urgent 34 minutes, it follows Hartman and the photographer Lou Bopp as they visit and photograph the bedrooms of four children killed in school shootings.

OSCO and multiple agencies on scene at Temple Israel West Bloomfield for reports of an active shooter. Emergency personnel clearing the building. Updates to follow. FBI personnel were also on the scene, responding to an apparent vehicle ramming and active shooter situation.