ourtten-year-old honor student kills teacher and two students, wounds another in his algebra class. He had vvritten arpoe:ni about murder in English class, and talked to friends about MOSES LAKE, atic istol and 2 othc,r family firearms, taken from an unlocked cabinet going on a. killing spree. He used his father's serniau and the family car. PADliCAH, KY FoUrteen-year-old shoots down 3 students, wounds8, at told - high school prayer meeting: He had friends that he was going to bring guns to school, to do "something big." inwrito xurt '77 WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? He used a semiautomatic handgun he had taken from a neighbor's garage. SPRINGFIELD, OR Fifteen-year-old murders parents, then opens fire in school cafeteria, killing 2 and injuring 22. He had read a journal entry to his English class about his desire to kill schoolmates. He used a semiautomatic rifle. a gift from his parents. The child who murders? The family that provides the weapons? Eighth-grader shoots EDINBORO, PA science teacher, wounds-3 others at school dance. He had told friends that he was going to kill 9 people and then kill The kids who don't tell? The parents and teachers who ignore the warning signs? The community that votes down funding for school counselors? himself. He used a handgun he had taken from Responsible firearm owners who don't protest the excesses of the gun lobby? his father's dresser. People who don't vote? PEARL, MS Sixteen,year-old kills mother with knife, opens fire in school cafeteria, kills 2, wounds 7. He had told a friend that he was going to murder his Whoever mother the next day. He used his own .30-.30 rifle. can prevent members of his household from sinning but does not, bears responsibility for the sins of his house- hold: Whoever can prevent fellow citizens from sinning but does JONESBORO, AR Eleven-year-old arid 13-year-old open fire on teachers and:Stu- an d at dents, killing 5. Older boy had school about suicide and guns.. They used 9 weapons, including the 11- er, year-old's father's Derringer and Maus his_ taken from and a semiautomatic rifle, grandfather's unlocked gun cabinet. not, bears responsibility for the sins of fellow citizens•. Whoever can prevent the whole world from sinning but does not, bears responsibility for the sins of the entire world. from Talmud Shabbat 54b The publication of this High Holy Day message is made possible by: Rabbi Aaron Bergman Cantor Earl Berris Rabbi Leonardo Bitran Rabbi Michelle Faudem Rabbi Noah Gamze Cantor Howard Glantz Cantor Samuel Greenbaum AND THE BUSH il2OrT1 WAS NOT 1-131X CONSUMED 5n1•C Rabbi Irwin Groner Cantor Israel Idelsohn Rabbi Joseph Krakoff Cantor Louis Klein Cantor Chaim Najman Rabbi David Nelson Rabbi Daniel Nevins Rabbi Elliot Pachter Cantor Sidney Rube Dr. Mark Smiley Rabbi Efry Spectre Cantor Larry Vieder Rabbi Stephen Weiss Rabbi Herbert Yoskowitz THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY The academic and spiritual center of Conservative Judaism worldwide Rabbi lsmar Schorsch, Chancellor; Tom Wexelberg-Clouser, JTS Great Lakes, Director The High Holy Day message for the New Year 5759 is available for publication; permission to reprint is granted. To discuss this message, please visit us at http://www.jtsa.edu/pubs/hh/5759/ . For single copies, contact the JTS Communications Department at 3080 Broadway, NYC 10027-4649. (212) 678 - 8950.