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Hartford, CT - Chabad-Lubavitch centers, synagogues and Jewish community institutions throughout Connecticut took heightened security precautions on Tuesday after receiving an alert from law enforcement and state authorities that the prime suspect in a fatal shooting at Wesleyan University could be specifically targeting the campus and its Jewish community.
According to Rabbi Yisrael Deren, the head Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the state and the Stamford-based director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Fairfield County, all 14 Chabad Houses are in constant contact with police.
"We've gone over a checklist of items," said Deren, declining to specify the measures taken, citing security concerns. "All of the items on the list were already in place, because security is something we live with on a regular basis." Turning to the Stamford center, he added: "We have also been assured by the local police department that there will be more patrols of our center."
Citing threats suspect Stephen Morgan allegedly directed against Jews in his journal, Wesleyan officials said that Jewish students especially should take extra precautions. He is accused of murdering Johanna Justin-Jinich, 22, at an off-campus bookstore.
In Glastonbury, Rabbi Yosef Wolvovsky, who directs the Chabad Jewish Center and coordinates activities for Wesleyan's Jewish faculty and students, said that people are understandably on edge.
"Students and faculty, particularly, are very much disturbed by what happened," said Wolvovksy, who lives 15 minutes from the Wesleyan campus in Middletown. "Students are essentially locked down in their dorms, and the school has recommended that faculty not come into work."
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May 07, 2009 at 04:23 PM Avrohom Abba Says:
Only a total coward would shoot someone who is not armed and who is not threatening them.
A real coward is very afraid of being hurt, so if he kills, he doesn't have be scared of being hit. This reminds me of all the murderers who kill innocent people in a hotel or in a night club, or on a bus or airplane. Then, to hide the fact that they are cowards, they call themselves, "heroes and martyrs."
Really, we all know the truth. They are just shaking in their pants out of fear because they are so afraid of being hurt or caught. They have no courage or power so they only murder the innocent. They always pick people who can't fight back because they are deeply afraid to get hurt.
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May 07, 2009 at 05:47 PM pmo#1 Says:
What about the yeshivas?
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May 07, 2009 at 06:03 PM jay Says:
“ What about the yeshivas? ”
pmo#1 You seem to be a smart person, you have a idea that the Law Enforcement people did not think off, like "" What about the yeshivas?"" i think that you need to call them and make them look at yeshivas also. please do it now it is an emergency.
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May 07, 2009 at 08:24 PM Anonymous Says:
what about tying people down instead of reaching out to help
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May 07, 2009 at 07:41 PM Anonymous Says:
instead of cowering in the corner of everything and anything remotely Jewish, why don't some cops, deputies, and armed civilians stake out some of the more high profile hot spots? Why is a lone nut gunman causing multiple institutions to close down---what does he have, a Bazooka, RPG, machine guns, the atom bomb?
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May 08, 2009 at 06:37 AM Anonymous Says:
Hold it there.... question... did this dude write anti-Chabad things in his journal? or just anti-Jew things?
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May 08, 2009 at 07:25 AM avi Says:
“ Hold it there.... question... did this dude write anti-Chabad things in his journal? or just anti-Jew things? ”
you know - you are a self-hating jew!!
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May 09, 2009 at 07:37 AM ZR Says:
“ Hold it there.... question... did this dude write anti-Chabad things in his journal? or just anti-Jew things? ”
This murder was committed in university by a student of university. So the Police have taken precaution for the Jewish institutions in the surrounding universities.
The predominant Jewish presence in most universities in the USA happens to be Chabad.