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Chicagos Jewish community shaken after
two deaths in a shooting rampage.
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in Leautiful surroundings
created especially
The Bullets, Again
the West Bank, I get shot in
Chicago."
Smith was a member of the World
Church of the Creator, a white
supremacist group based in Peoria, Ill.
weekend shooting spree
He had been arrested several times,
that left two men dead and
most recently in north suburban
six Jews wounded is send-
Chicago in April, for distributing
ing shock waves through
anti-Semitic and anti-minority litera-
the Jewish community in Chicago.
ture produced by that organization.
The shootings, which police said
"The entire community is thankful
were carried out by Benjamin
that this streak of
Nathaniel Smith, a
violence
has come
man
who
21 year old
to an end," said
belonged to a white
Michael Kotzin,
supremacist group,
executive vice presi-
ended late Sunday
dent of the Jewish
night with the alleged
Federation/Jewish
gunman's suicide.
United Fund of
The initial attacks
Metropolitan
took place last Friday
Chicago.
evening within an
z
"At the same
eight-block radius in
time, the horrifying
West Rogers Park,
events of this July
home to the Chicago
4th weekend will
area's largest popula-
continue to rever-
tion of Orthodox
berate in the Jewish
Jews. Many Jewish
community and in
residents were walk-
the community at
ing the streets at the
Benjamin Nathaniel Smith
large.
time, on their way to
While Orthodox,
and from their syna-
Jews
don't
listen
to
the
radio or watch
gogues.
TV
on
Shabbat,
word
had
spread
The injured Jews were Hillel
throughout
the
community
by
Goldstein, 34; Eric Yates, 31; Dean
Saturday
morning.
Bell, 31; Gidon Sapir, 34, an Israeli;
A buzz could be heard at West
Ian Hupert, 31; and Ephraim Wolfe,
Rogers
Park synagogues, as congre-
15.
gants who hadn't seen the story in the
That none of the six were killed is
morning papers shared developments
"nothing short of miraculous," said
with each other.
Rabbi Zev Cohen of Congregation
The local media had implied that/
Adas Yeshurun, where several of the
the
investigation had been slowed
wounded were members.
because
Orthodox Jews would not
The shooting spree began at
talk to police on Shabbat.
approximately 8:20 p.m. when the
But Cohen and Chicago Police
gunman shot Goldstein in thestom-
Commander David Boggs said the
ach. Two minutes later he shot Yates
police had received the best coopera-
in the upper leg, shot Bell four times,
tion" from the Jewish community.
and hit Sapir in the lower back, all
Cohen said the Orthodox commu-
within one block of each other.
nity
is being supported by the entire ,
He then drove a few blocks south
C,
Chicago-area
Jewish community,
and west, where he shot at and
along
with
all
the
citizens
of
Chicago
missed two others. Then, moving the
and Illinois.
wrong way down a one-way street, he
"We're all together. We're all griev-
shot his next victim, Hupert, and
ing, we're all mourning, we're all
finally ended his attack in the area
shaken, and no matter how we differ
with Wolfe, whom he shot in the leg.
in the incidentals of our daily lives, if
"It's a bit ironic," Sapir said. "I'm a
we
come together when tragedy
captain in the Israeli infantry and
strikes,
we're a family," Cohen said at
after spending time in Lebanon and
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