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Unity, not the blame game, will defeat white nationalist hate

By Beth Bailey
Published April 29, 2019 8:09pm ET
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Unity, not the blame game, will defeat white nationalist hate
A group of Poway residents bring flowers and cards to a memorial outside of the Chabad of Poway synagogue, Sunday, April 28, 2019, in Poway, Calif. A man opened fire Saturday inside the synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of a major Jewish holiday. | (AP Photo/Denis Poroy) (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

Exactly six months after a white nationalist killed 11 Jewish congregants at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, another white nationalist has carried out a shooting directed against American Jews.

On April 27, during Passover services at Congregation Chabad temple in Poway, Calif., a 19-year-old male shot four Jewish worshipers. One of his victims, a 60-year-old woman, died of her wounds, having used her own body to shield her rabbi.

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